Wood carving

It is a form of working wood by means of a cutting tool (knife) in one hand or a chisel by two hands or with one hand on a chisel and one hand on a mallet, resulting in a wooden figure or figurine, or in the sculpturalornamentation of a wooden object. The phrase may also refer to the finished product, from individual sculptures, to hand-worked mouldings composing part of a tracery.Some of the finest extant examples of early wood carving are from the Middle Agesin Italy and France, where the typical themes of that era were Christian iconography. In England many complete examples remain from the 16th and 17th century, whereoak was the preferred medium in this case