Wood Carvings Italy

Wood Carvings Italy

The beautiful valley „Val Gardena“ in South Tyrol, Italy, is since many generations famous for its unique wood carvings. Italy is proud of having two specialised wood art schools in Val Gardena, where artisans can learn more about the traditional wood carving.

A lot of wood craftsmen are working for Demetz Patrick Wood carvings, Italy. Every one of them is a master craftsmen, mostly using his families knowledge of woodcarving. The artist thereby are carving with the traditional old tools, their fathers and grandfathers already used, the wooden hammer and the chisel.
With great affection each wooden item is carefully designed and carved. The shop of Patrick Demetz in S. Cristina, Val Gardena, offers a variety of non-religious and religious wood carvings. Italy, and especially the wood art shop in Val Gardena, is famous for it’s large range of wooden Nativity scene figurines and crib figures, like Maria, St. Joseph and little baby Jesus, all with different postures. The crib figures can be combined with different stables, all kinds of wooden animals and a variety of very detailed carved children. But wood carvings Italy do also offer several crucifixes, angels, wood carvings of the Madonna or Jesus Christ.
The wooden cuckoo clocks are also very famous wood carvings in Italy.
With great precision artisans like carvers, designers, sculptors, painters and even guilders are working together in the creating process of detailed wood carvings in Italy. Patrick Demetz Woodcarvings guarantees that their wood carvings are all hand-made.