Carved doors, jaali screens and ceilings

By the WuDesign workshop, Thottakkadu · Photographs are of our own work · Updated 5 September 2026

In short

Entrance doors, jaali screens, panelling and ceiling work.
Drawn to the opening you already have, from a photograph or a sketch.
Fitted by our own team, not a sub-contractor.

A pierced screen is the hardest thing in this catalogue to do badly and get away with, because you see through it: every line is read against the light behind it, and any wander in the cut shows. Machining the pattern and finishing the edges by hand is what keeps a jaali crisp.

Entrance doors, panelling, ceiling work and screens are drawn to the opening you already have. Bring a photograph, a rough sketch, or a picture of a door you liked in the house down the road. We draw it, cut it on our own machines, and finish it here.

Jaali screen
A pierced screen for light and air, cut to your own pattern.
Teak
Sanctuary screen
The screen dividing the madbaha from the nave.
Teak
Pierced ceiling screen
A ceiling panel cut right through and sprayed white. The pattern is drawn to the room it goes in.
Jaali panels and gilded mouldings
Pierced panels stacked against the wall, and the gilded mouldings that run with them.
Syriac beam over the madbaha
The lettered beam across the sanctuary arch, cut and gilded to the parish's own text.
Teak
Offertory box
A caned box carried up at the offertory, made light enough to hold in two hands.
A carved entrance door
Two leaves carved top to bottom, hung on a house. The centre stile, the beading and the panels are all cut on one setting, so the pattern runs through the join instead of stopping at it.
Teak
Prayer-room doors
Bells pierced right through the panel, so the lamp inside reads on the landing when the doors are shut.
Teak
A panelled wall
Grooved boarding run the length of a room, with a carved rail and turned brass rosettes breaking it at chair height.
Teak
Star jaali panel
A repeating star lattice cut clean through, for a partition or a ventilator. The pattern is set out so no cut lands on a short grain.
Gothic tracery screen
Rose-window tracery in two tiers, cut and then painted out, so what you read is the shadow rather than the timber.