Wood carving of Iran in the Safavid era

Wood carving of Iran in the Safavid era

In the Safavid era, the use of wood continued to expand, to the point that wood was used in the manufacture of many items such as doors and windows, pitched roofs, painted columns, very delicate inlays on chests and doors and wooden utensils, as well as on the pulpit they used it in a wide range. At the age of thirteen, Shah Ismail went to the battle of Shervanshah with a small army and left for Azerbaijan by killing Shervanshah’s family. After capturing that area, he added Baku to his territory and in 881 AD, he was crowned in Tabriz in 1502 AD.
Our information about the Safavid period is more than the doors that exist in the mosques of Iran and West Turkestan and in various museums such as the Golestan Museum in Tehran and the Islamic Museum of the Berlin Museum. Decorations of these doors are mostly decorative shapes or floral designs, which are sometimes combined with animal shapes.
One of the good examples of this industry in the Safavid period is a pair of doors in Tehran, which is the work of a person named Ali Ibn Sufi on the date of 915 AH. . It is located in another museum in Berlin, built by Habibullah in the year 995 AH. AH in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the woodworking and engraving industry declined, and the doors built during this period were often painted instead of engraved. One pair from this period is in the Metropolitan Museum and another in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, which belongs to the Chehelston Palace in Isfahan and can be attributed to the first half of the 11th century AH. All of these have garden landscapes in the middle and a decorative fringe of flowers and scroll shapes.