Besides stone sculpture
another art form worth mentioning is woodcarving. No visitor
to the Kathmandu Valley can go without being impressed by
the numerous extremely beautiful windows, doors, temple roof-struts
and other intricately carved artifacts. As wood is vulnerable
to the ravages of time well preserved specimens date back
only to the fourteenth century.
Woodcarving has been an integral part of
Nepalese architecture, some of the examples being the old
palaces of Kathmandu, Patan and Bhaktapur and a number of
different Viharas (monasteries) around the Valley.
Wood Carving Hadicrafts
The wooden carved handicrafts can be seen in the form of buddha statues, peacock windows, kumari windows etc from its early beginnings right up to modern times.
Carved Windows
The carved windows is common in temples and they can also be seen in the houses.
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