In Anatolian Seljuk wood workmanship, carving is the technique most appropriate to, and most frequently employed for, the decorative style in which thuluth inscriptions and palmette and half-palmette motifs are often used amid rumî branches and tendrils. Decorations incorporating geometric patterns also occupy an important place in Seljuk wood workmanship. The ‘kündekâri’ technique is used especially on large surfaces such as doors, shutters, pulpits and wood panelling. Pieces of wood cut in lozenge, star or octagonal shapes are joined together inside regularly hollowed out strips of wood in an interlocking pattern.

THE OTTOMAN STYLE IN ART
The period of the Principalities, which gradually established hegemony over 14th century Anatolia, coincided with the transition to Ottoman art. The wood workmanship used particularly for architectural elements such as pulpits, mosque doors, and other doors and shutters in the periods of the Seljuks and the Principalities found a much broader area of application in the Ottoman period.