History of woodcarving in Val Gardena Italy

SCULPTORS AND WOOD CARVERS
ART PAINTERS - DECORATION SCULPTORS
In the Gardena Valley, in the middle of the 17th century there arised the artistic craft of wood carving as a result of the modestly attempt to secure a secondary income carving utensils for the home and the farm.

There are reliable masters and vocational schools and schools of art in Ortisei and Selva with an experience of many years who take care for the education of the new young sculptors.

The difference of handmade and machine moulded works of art is indicated by a trademark from the chamber of commerce of Bolzano and gets fixed onto the handmade sculptures by an expert.

Metal badges with this mark are only fixed onto handmade sculptures by an expert of the chamber of commerce. The chamber of commerce only gives this trademark and the certificate for complete handmade wood carvings.

Wood Carvings & Wood Sculptures - Wooden Hand Carved Gifts - Val Gardena Italy
Woodcarving as an expression of art in everyday life has developed in many different cultures. In Val Gardena Italy, a small valley in the Italian Dolomites, woodcarving encompasses a large variety of woodcarving topics. The origin of carving wood in Val Gardena Italy and the Italian Alps is thought to be the long winters when the poor Val Gardena Italian farmers carved wooden toys for their children and hand carved gifts for their loved ones. Predominately Catholic, the practice of hand carved gifts naturally inspired hand carved religious items. These included Jesus on a cross, the Virgin Mother, Nativity Mangers, and angel figurines. Meanwhile, hand carving wood led to many other areas of everyday life in Val Gardena Italy and the Italian Alps like Christmas ornaments, family coat of arms, animal figurines, musicians. When certain hand carved gifts became popular in Val Gardena Italy, the artist that carved wooden gifts in Val Gardena Italy began producing duplicates of their hand carved wooden gifts. A hand carved gift purchased at www.wood-carving.eu is a duplicate of an entirely hand carved sculpture. The carving process involves the initial creation of a rough shape of the sculpture by what is called a pantograph. The hand carved gift is then finished by hand carving. The final step is where the exclusive hand carved gift is hand painted or hand waxed. In www.wood-carving.eu , you will also discover entirely hand carved gift items. Purchasing a hand carved wooden gift from www.wood-carving.eu means you will only not own a beautiful hand carved gift, but a piece of the long and storied Val Gardena Italy history and the beautiful land in Italy known as the Italian Alps. www.wood-carving.eu selling a wide range of woodcarvings made in Val Gardena, Italy. Wood carving tradition developed in Gardena Valley in XVII century for the production of wooden utensils. Today the tools used for woodcarvings are still the same, the chisel and the hammer, but wood carvings production has become the most important economic activity in the valley. Thanks to the great tradition of italian wood carving artists, woodcarvings products are well known in every part of the world and Val Gardena has become synonymous with wood carving art. Gardena Valley's high quality handicraft wood carvings are exported all over the world thanks to www.wood-carving.eu. All the fine wood carvings for sale in the online store are handmade and hand painted; all italian woodcarvings are realized using only wood of the ancient forests of Val Gardena, Italy. Online sale of handicraft wood carvings realized by famous wood carvers and wood artists in their wood carving laboratories.