Ki-OilPainting: wood carving on a Malay house
genre: heritagetitle: wood carving on a Malay housemedium: oil-painting on canvasmeasure: 100cm × 100cmyear: 2020price: myr 8000.00
Wood carving in the Malay realm: The selected wood types are identified as durable, not easily fragmented or broken, such as Cengal and Nyatoh. Local timber resources, growing around the place.
Wood carving serves as a dividing wall, filigree, lattice, part of the door and windows, rafter cover, floor beam coverings, furniture and aesthetic value.
A number of these carvings are characteristic of shade and also walls for ventilation. Oftenly, the pattern chosen were characteristic of plants; clouds; and patterns found in animals such as fishes, birds, skin shape of reptiles.
Seen on the whole Malay carving, they are diligent and persistent and have high patience.