chinot furniture

 

Chiniot furniture.

Aside from embossing, Chiniot is renowned for its woodwork inlay. The furniture is designed and decorated with brass. Different patterns are used when painting furniture. Many furniture designers create innovative and beautiful designs by utilizing geometrical patterns. Using this method, little wood pieces are joined together to create various designs. Most often, these patterns are employed to embellish structures.

However, it is deeply concerning that no sincere efforts have been made by any of the succeeding governments to support this sector, which is one of the most promising and has the potential to significantly boost the national economy by bringing in large amounts of foreign currency and creating thousands of new jobs.

In this city, which mostly supplies Pakistan with handmade furniture, more than 5,000 families are currently employed in the furniture sector.

Due to a lack of innovation and poor product quality, the sector appears to be at a standstill. While manufacturers do not utilize computer-assisted design, new items are merely based on designs that have been lifted from many brochures and catalogs. Shisham wood is the sole raw material that has had severe illness "die back," as the locals refer to it, over the past three decades, and its general growth has been ,

Before sending wood for carving, it must first be dried or "seasoned." However, Chiniot lacked even a single shrub for curing wood. In response to the ongoing demand from the local furniture industry, the province government, together with Punjab Small Industry Cooperation, established a wooden furniture common faculty service center and showroom in 2004 on a six kanal site along the Chiniot-Faisalabad Road. The expense of seasoning wood, however, is so expensive that furniture manufacturers are no longer interested in using the facility.

oppening across the entire nation. As a result, both the output and amount of  shisham  wood have declined.

HISTORY OF FURNITURE

Following the end of the last ice age, the hunter-gatherer societies of the Stone Age progressively learned the techniques and suitability of agriculture, giving rise to civilizations. Families were able to construct homes and accumulate things so they were no longer constantly on the move in their continual search for nourishment. Because labor could be divided, skilled artisans started to hone their skills and produce items like jewelry, pottery, and furniture.

CLASSIC FURNITURE

Despite the fact that many pieces of old art, like jewelry and ceramics, have survived from the earliest civilizations, antique furniture, which was mostly made of wood, has long since rotted away. The majority of the information we have about ancient furniture comes from scenarios represented in early art forms like frescoes and pottery decorations.

MIDDLE AGES FURNITURE

The medieval era, which spanned from the demise of Constantinople in 1453) until the fall of the last Roman Emperor in 476 AD, was when furniture started to take on modern characteristics. Oak was frequently used to make medieval furniture because it was inexpensive, sturdy, and long-lasting. The chest or coffer was arguably the most significant piece of furniture in medieval times. The word "trunk" was first used to describe hollow tree trunks that had been bound with iron and used as chests.