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Carver
OFO Code: 661702
Last checked 3 October 2026
1. Occupation identity
- OFO code
- 661702
- Occupation
- Carver
- Classification
- OFO 2021
- Major group
- SKILLED AGRICULTURAL, FORESTRY, FISHERY, CRAFT AND RELATED TRADES WORKERS
- Unit group
- 6617 · Handicraft Workers in Wood, Basketry and Related Materials
Official description
Handicraft workers in wood, basketry and related materials apply traditional techniques like seasoning, impregnation to prepare wood, straw, rattan, reeds, stone, clay, shells, and other materials, and carve, mould, assemble, weave, or paint and decorate various articles for personal or household use, or for decorative purposes. Basketry weavers, brush makers and related workers select and prepare materials like bristles, nylon, fibre, bass, whisker and wire to make wicker furniture, brushes and brooms and weave various kinds of baskets.
More official OFO detail
Specialisations: Carver (Bone / Stone / Wood), Wood Carver
- Selecting and preparing brush materials, such as bristles, nylon, fibres and wire, and setting them in brush base
- Painting free hand decorative designs on glass and pottery or porcelain war
- inserting rods around edge of bottom between woven sections of bottom and bending them upright to serve as framework for sides
- Carving, assembling, weaving, painting and decorating various articles for personal or household use such as salad bowls, serving-spoons, cutting-boards, trays, vases, jugs, baskets, straw hats, straw mats and similar objects
- Making wicker furniture from peeled and softened rattan, reeds, rushes, willow branches and similar materials
- Making various kinds of baskets by interlacing osier, rattan, reeds, rushes or similar materials
- Carving floral and artistic designs on wooden surfaces for decorative purposes
- Forming bottom of basket by interlacing strips of rattan, wood veneer or other material with Framework of rods of material such as willow
- Selecting and preparing materials, such as broom corn, bass , whisker and fibre, and fastening them to broom handles
- Preparing wood, straw, rattan, reeds, stone, shells, or similar materials
2. Demand status
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10. Sources for this page
- DHET Organising Framework for Occupations (OFO 2021) · Planned
- DHET Occupations in High Demand · Planned
- Critical Skills List · Planned
- QCTO qualifications and occupational certificates · Planned
- Stats SA Quarterly Labour Force Survey · Planned
- SETA Sector Skills Plans / hard-to-fill vacancy tables · Planned