traditional wood carving art

Carve techniques and equipment used in each area are very diverse. The kinds of carvings are as follows:
Openwork carving is a form of carved motif of his stand as a whole and its background is made transparent or perforated.
Carving sink is carved motif was lower than the field basically.
Intact carving is a form of engravings protrusion his motives in total with no background and frame. Form of engraving showing a form of a dagger, for example, masks and puppets.
Low carving is carving protrusion motive is not too high and the background motif.
High carving is a form of engravings protrusion motive was lower than half its whole shape viewed from the background motif.
Traditional motifs carved each region is very diverse shades of her. so as to get to know each one of the motives we have to know the basic pattern. Therefore it should be known the name of motifs, shapes and ciri- characteristics. Stylized techniques from plants, animals and humans usually used for carving patterns tradition.
In everyday life ornaments used to decorate the top field of an object so it looks beautiful to the eye
Some of the names carved motif tradition
1. MOTIF JEPARA
2. SEMARANG MOTIF-AN
3. MOTIF PEKALONGAN
4. MOTIF YOGYAKARTA
5. MOTIF INTEREST ASMAT (Irian Jaya)
6. MOTIF CORAL CIREBON
7. MOTIF TORAJA
8. MOTIF BALI
9. MOTIF SURAKARTA
10. MOTIF CIREBON