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Wood Carvers/ Carpenters The course for carpentry and wood carving included both theoretical classes (1 day/week) and practical trainings (4 days/week), as well as a one day of excursion to a wood processing plant. The following skills were taught in the carpentry curriculum: - How to prepare, treat, store and maintain different types of wood, and what types of wood should be used for which purposes. - Different tools and how to use them, including work safety measures and first aid. - How to build a window frame and shutters, a door, a wooden floor, a cupboard in an interior wall, a broken interior gallery or fence, a wooden staircase, an interior balcony resting on poles or a wooden construction (tataposh), and a traditional wood ceiling of a Gjirokastra house, including decorative frames and fillets. - How to carve a relief (including a rosette), a broken decorative arch, and a broken gallery. - Design of floral and geometric decorations, traditional ornaments, and the creation of models from clay. - Basic drawing, including geometry, perspective, proportion, etc.
Theoretical classes included the following subjects:
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