The awareness about value of crafts is emerging back in India but the craftspeople are now posed with the challenge of blending traditional knowledge with emerging design trends to cater to the new markets. Further over the last few decades the industrial production has reduced the skilled based handwork resulting into disintegration of wood craft practices. But due to the shift in the building industry over period of time, the craftspeople working in the building wood craft sector have now moved to smaller scale of furniture and objects. The craftspeople not only encompasses the knowledge of material and skills of making in wood but also holds a holistic and intuitive understanding of sustainability in the larger context. The traditional wood craft practices are still thriving in India and they are embedded with an inherent empirical knowledge. ![]() The rich wooden heritage of India displays multiple types of crafts like wood carving, wood inlay, wood marquetry, wood turning and lacquer, carpentry and wood working. One of the most prominent natural material to be employed in these buildings is wood. They were constructed by local craftspeople, using indigenous technologies which have evolved over the years. The traditional and vernacular houses constitutes a major section of built heritage in India generating a physical compendium of the rituals and culture of a civilization and its people.
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