Wood Lattice Work has a long history; since the primitives changed their location from a cave to the desert learning how to build some quadruples to protect themselves from outside dangers, they made a window of animal skin, leave or a netted piece of stone in order to light the cottage. In this regard, they not only prevented the cottage from being clod, but also provided the place with some kind of lighting. These holes were gradually turned into some beautiful shapes. Today, we can see the lattice works on the doors, the pulpit, shrines, mosques, metal containers and ceramic which have been created by the skill of making lattices of leather, wood or metal. In the past, the doors of the houses were built using the colorful pieces of glass through the art of latticework. 

This method had been, specially, popular since the Safavid time until almost fifty years ago. Unfortunately, this art is not as popular as it used to be and we can just see some examples in the museum vitrines. The tools required for latticework art include arc, saw, wood glue, a layer of metal or board, hammer, paper glue, table, pliers and sandpaper. It is usually made in two ways: 1. All in one piece without any kind of glue in which the pieces don’t get completely separated in time of cutting; 2. Completely separated in a way that all pieces are cut one by one and then they are fastened on a fabric or board which is called elaborated woodwork. Nowadays, the art of wood latticework is mostly used for decorating and beautifying the doors and windows of mosques, palaces, sacred places, mausoleums, decorative luxurious objects, precious calligraphy tableaus, paravans, lusters, jewelry, home decoration and so on. 

Wood latticework artists usually use arabesque, Khatai and geometric patterns. Wood latticework is one of the branches of wood carving craft applying on different woods. Artists tend to use the popular latticawork in architecture, carpentry and other crafts in carving woods for making doors and windows to be eye-catching. In the past, they filled out the bank spaces between lattices using some colorful pieces of glass which brought a more pleasant look for the final product; theses lattices are called Qāmeh in art of wood latticework. The process of making a latticework is as follows: in the first place, they fasten the pattern on the main base or transfer it using some carbon paper. After marking the pattern, they start to pierce some parts of the pattern using a drill, in order the cutting phase to be facilitated. Then, the extra points and lines are cut through jigsaw in order to complete the whole pattern as one single piece.