Indian Woodworkers Past, Present and Exhibition
History of Indian Carpenters: Indian carpentry has over 200 years history along with blacksmith, goldsmith, brass smith and mason .
The Indian Carpentry has been started from significantly in British RaJ, where British colonial use to labor was being subordinate for making of buildings, stations, handloom weaving industry, roads, railways, bridges etc. Carpenters were in huge demand from the late 17th century as various regional states and the East India Company sought to secure forts during the political tussles that followed the slow disintegration of the Mughal Empire. In general carpenter there were Artisans who was specially subordinate for wood carving on gate, wooden columns, chairs, Bed, In the post-1857 period, carpentry became one of the most prominent industrial skills coerced in Indian prisons, as the British Indian state sought to use the labour of convicts to fulfil its high demand for wood products. Carpentry was taught in regional arts and industrial schools ranging from prominent, large-scale institutions like the Mayo School of Arts in Lahore to small-scale, charitable industrial schools and orphanages. It often formed the backbone of the industrial training programs of these smaller schools, which sustained themselves in part by selling furniture, decorative wood products, and other materials produced in their training workshops. Now days carpentry with the advance technology and demand in industry become modern with machinery using CNC a machine for wood carving, cutting and many other artistic work. Carpentry with modern machines taught in ITI and skill development scheme by the government. A huge carpenter from North India to work in metro cities like Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai and Kolkata and various semi urban or tier two cities. These all carpenters some educated and most of the illiterate but they are master in wood working. A new labour learned by experience or on site work experience become carpenter and moving forward as head carpenter, supervisor or contractor. There is differentiate in interior wood worker and the exhibition wood worker, the interior wood worker has polish worker or carpenter in the work but they are too much time passer and slow worker as compared to exhibition carpenters. The interior Carpenters took hours to sharpen the tools. Exhibition wood worker has somewhat deficiency in the carpentry work. Exhibition work has temporary structure and limited time to fabricate it hence its impact on carpenters work and some time we called “ Hathoda chap” but the interior carpenters a fine hand on interior work because they have enough time to execution as well setup. Some carpenter doing work in both interior and exhibition but most commonly they are turned in to exhibition work because of fast working culture and fast money or wages in the field of exhibition. Now days we have shortage of skill carpenter for interior work as compared to exhibition carpenters and some of have high in demand. .
