Tag: Wood Carving Workshop

Mas Village is one of the villages in Bali which is fundamentally known as the center of wood carving workshop in Bali. Mas Village is located in Ubud District and Gianyar Regency, east of Bali. He has a characteristic of wood carving art by emphasizing the synergy of humanism and naturalism. The Popularity of the village as a famous wood carving village at national and world level that has given birth and found the spirit (taksu) and soul. Along the road in the village of mas, we will find many art shops selling various types of wood carvings. On the left or on the right side of the road we can also see the rice fields, so we can make the conclusion that Mas society life not only as woodcarver but also as a farmer. Many visitors come to this village every day, they want to see or smell wood carvings and see the people there, how to make wood carvings. This Artistic countryside owns the long history root. The result of wood carving art in this village owns the immeasurable and wide dimension like idol for the devoting (arca idol), representative dimension of everyday Balinese social society life (farmer, fisherman, worker, intellectual, merchant etc), the abstract dimension as existing of actor imagination which is listening carefully of reality, dynamics and life philosophy. The villagers are same as villagers at other tourism countryside in Bali that have also experienced the transformation from agrarian society to the crafting society. Even nowadays, it is continued to service society from commerce service until levying service of the souvenir for overseas and domestic tourist. Location of Mas Village in the main road from Denpasar to Ubud and it can be reached from various of angle. It is about 15 km easterly go to the