Woodcarving was one of the earliest human occupations. It remains popular and to this day. Some ancient examples have survived in arid climate of Egypt, for example, a wooden statue of Sheik-ale-Beled from Old Kingdom. Ancient Egypt furniture also refers to the most ancient samples have come down our time, which has been saved up to now thanks to custom to leave the things, intended for life in kingdom beyond the grave, in burial places. Pharaohs furnish thrones that their backs were covered with cross-cutting symbolic carving with weak relief had especial luxury finish.

It is difficult to fix first cultic symbols - idols, stylized images of animals, heavenly bodies - manufacturing time. Many of them were some kind of the talismans protected from malign forces. This explains the use of wood carving in the construction and equipping of homes. It is distinctly traced if to concern history of wooden housing construction of Russian North, Ural Mountains, Siberia, and many European countries, in particular the Alpine. Directly it is connected with house carving. This includes household items, carved furniture, interior decoration of the house and its appearance too. The technique of wood processing already has been developed enough in X – XII centuries. The art carving, in particular such direction, as sculptural carving, has no less deep roots also. It is possible to recollect the ancient ships with the obligatory image of mythological bird or dragon head, and even the whole statue, more often the female. There were the same talismans of seafarers in their difficult and dangerous campaigns.
These biggish mythical beings were made of clear-bole one peace. The head, as a rule, was compound. All listed signs tell us about sculptural carving products. It is considered that the sculptural carving history has strongly marked "sea" origin. Only later the sculptural carving has removed on land.
In the second half of XVI century the Renaissance comes in France. The carved double-hulled cabinets created simultaneously in Burgundy and Ile de France became furniture art top at that time. Triumph of art carved in the design of cabinets that time are three caryatids or Atlanta, put along the edges and between leafs as three pillars supporting magnificent eaves. Usually it is grotesque male and female semiframes in germ form. (Germa is the rectangular column completed by sculptural male or female semiframe.). This is the original sculptural art samples elegantly combining the reality with fantasy.
In Europe woodcarving has been highly developed in Scandinavia, (its examples are saved since 10 and 11 centuries). In England the Gothic period promoted occurrence of new, extremely perfect kind of carving, characteristic for those times. In France woodcarving was also part of religious art, and to this day there carved altarpiece are widely known. The Italian woodcarving prospered during the Gothic period in Pisa, Siena and Florence. Italian wood carving flourished during the Gothic period in Pisa, Siena and Florence.
 By the end of XIX - beginning of XX century the dominant trend in wood carving becomes cut through carving. It was just what did external home decoration the most expressive. It was just what enabled to achieve the sophistication degree, which allows comparison with lace products, which we mentioned earlier.
In relation to household items the most practical was products (including kitchen) turning which were decorated by geometrical, relief or contour carving. Primitive lathes applied at first now have turned to compact high-efficiency products which gave the chance to the carver to receive perfect template for its decorating.

Historically developing, art wood processing along with carving gradually began to be enriched by color. Carvings tincturing, and then and then painting embellishment of various wooden items has led to folk art centers formation where painting became mainstream of their activity. Necessity to improve some kinds of wood or to disguise its natural defects (log blue, snubs, etc.) was one of the reasons of coloring and painting introduction in wood subjects.

Masters achieve art conceptions variety, in particular, by the way of metal introduction (a notch technician), connection different in color and texture of the wood (inlay technique), drawing or background burning out underlining pattern silhouette.
Every year the woodcarving as the art form prospers and develops, but in each country in its own way, reflecting and combining its cultural values and rich heritage of ancestors.