Wooden handicrafts are the most common among various types of Pakistani handicrafts. These crafts are very economical to produce due to wide spread use of modern machinery. Wooden handicrafts are not just built for decorative purposes but also produced while keeping their utility for the prospective consumer. For example, wooden ashtrays, key holders, Magazines rack, coffee and side tables of all sizes, chairs, bedroom and dining room furniture.
The most amazing features of all these products are their high quality finish. Though artisans used modern machinery to carve and assemble the wooden articles but still the use of centuries old polishing methods and hand painting make wooden crafts extremely exuberant. Particularly, foreigners love to purchase wooden handicrafts from Pakistan.
During old days, Pakistanis were not apparently knew the utility of packing wooden articles. Instead they designed them as “consumer ready” For example, if you need to buy a table, you will also need to arrange a small truck for its transportation. I remember long lines of Suzuki Pickups (small SUVs) outside wooden marketplaces where my family used to buy wooden stuff. With the advent of Chinese wooden products into local Pakistani markets, wood producers are trying to do everything they can to make their products more compatible. For that, they have to make their products more attractive, durable and transportable. As a result, the exports of Pakistani Wooden Products have increased significantly.
Types of woods most commonly used in Pakistani wooden articles and furniture are:
Mahogany
Sandal
Sheesham
Places from where you can purchase in Pakistan:
The hub of the wooden handicrafts remains Chinoit (the wooden capital of Pakistan), but wooden products with exquisite designs and fillings also being sold in bulk across the country. There are a couple of shops who manufacture wooden articles exclusively for their foreign clients like the Bombay Company and very few people know that the Bombay Company has its origin in Pakistan not in India.
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well written article. Like any where else in the World, Chinese products are giving very tough competition to our wooden products. In Pakistan , there is acute shortage of good quality wood, we have to depend upon import of raw material which ,
makes our products very costly. Howevere, we are doing fine because of superior workmanship.