Handicraft workers in wood, basketry and related materials
In the ILO's assessment few of the job's tasks can be done by generative AI, or the scores are too spread out to reach gradient 1 — generative AI does not meaningfully take over the core of the work.
Exposure is not job loss: it shows how much of the work generative AI could do today. Whether that turns into transformation, productivity gains or cuts depends on employers, regulation — and on you.
0 = today’s generative AI cannot perform any of the job’s tasks, 100 = it could do all of them fully. The pale band is the spread across tasks.
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Task by task
The ILO scored every task of the occupation separately, as the average of two AI models (GPT-4o and Gemini). The pale band is the range between the two models' scores, the dot the ILO's final score (for a few tasks expert review placed it outside the band).
- Painting freehand decorative designs on glass and pottery or porcelain ware15
- 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 objects15
- Carving, assembling, weaving and painting various decorative articles such as statues and other sculptures, chess pieces, jewellery and similar objects15
- Making various kinds of baskets by interlacing osier, rattan, reeds, rushes or similar materials14
- Carving floral and artistic designs on wooden surfaces for decorative purposes14
- Making wicker furniture from peeled and softened rattan, reeds, rushes, willow branches and similar materials14
- Selecting and preparing brush materials, such as bristles, nylon, fibres and wire, and setting them in brush base14
- Forming bottom of basket by interlacing strips of rattan, wood veneer or other material with framework of rods of material such as willow13
- Inserting rods around edge of bottom between woven sections of bottom and bending them upright to serve as framework for sides13
- Preparing wood, straw, rattan, reeds, shells, or similar materials12
- Selecting and preparing materials, such as broom corn, bass, whisker and fibre, and fastening them to broom handles.12
How much does it affect you?
Every job is different: mark which of these tasks you do and how much, and we'll compute your own, time-weighted score.
For each task: I don't do it · sometimes · most of my job.
- Painting freehand decorative designs on glass and pottery or porcelain ware(15)
- 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(15)
- Carving, assembling, weaving and painting various decorative articles such as statues and other sculptures, chess pieces, jewellery and similar objects(15)
- Making various kinds of baskets by interlacing osier, rattan, reeds, rushes or similar materials(14)
- Carving floral and artistic designs on wooden surfaces for decorative purposes(14)
- Making wicker furniture from peeled and softened rattan, reeds, rushes, willow branches and similar materials(14)
- Selecting and preparing brush materials, such as bristles, nylon, fibres and wire, and setting them in brush base(14)
- Forming bottom of basket by interlacing strips of rattan, wood veneer or other material with framework of rods of material such as willow(13)
- Inserting rods around edge of bottom between woven sections of bottom and bending them upright to serve as framework for sides(13)
- Preparing wood, straw, rattan, reeds, shells, or similar materials(12)
- Selecting and preparing materials, such as broom corn, bass, whisker and fibre, and fastening them to broom handles.(12)
You are exactly at the occupation average. (The occupation's score: 14.)
About 0% of your working time goes to highly exposed tasks (score ≥ 50).
- • Painting freehand decorative designs on glass and pottery or porcelain ware
- • 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
- • Selecting and preparing materials, such as broom corn, bass, whisker and fibre, and fastening them to broom handles.
- • Preparing wood, straw, rattan, reeds, shells, or similar materials
An estimate from the ILO task scores. Everything is computed in your browser — nothing is sent or stored.
How many people work in this occupational group?
Share of the Handicraft and printing workers group in total employment, by country (Eurostat, ISCO 2-digit — 4-digit breakdowns are not public by country).
Table view
| Country | Handicraft and printing workers |
|---|---|
| Italy | 1.0% · 230 thousand · 2025 |
| Switzerland | 0.7% · 32 thousand · 2025 |
| Slovenia | 0.6% · 6 thousand · 2025 |
| Hungary | 0.6% · 28 thousand · 2025 |
| Bulgaria | 0.5% · 16 thousand · 2025 |
| Portugal | 0.5% · 27 thousand · 2025 |
| Lithuania | 0.5% · 7 thousand · 2025 |
| Poland | 0.5% · 80 thousand · 2025 |
| Germany | 0.5% · 192 thousand · 2025 |
| Malta | 0.4% · 1 thousand · 2025 |
| Czechia | 0.4% · 22 thousand · 2025 |
| Croatia | 0.4% · 7 thousand · 2025 |
| France | 0.4% · 117 thousand · 2025 |
| Slovakia | 0.4% · 10 thousand · 2025 |
| Greece | 0.4% · 17 thousand · 2025 |
| Austria | 0.4% · 16 thousand · 2025 |
| Estonia | 0.3% · 2 thousand · 2025 |
| United Kingdom | 0.3% · 108 thousand · 2025 |
| Romania | 0.3% · 24 thousand · 2025 |
| Belgium | 0.3% · 16 thousand · 2025 |
| Spain | 0.3% · 65 thousand · 2025 |
| Netherlands | 0.3% · 28 thousand · 2025 |
| Denmark | 0.3% · 9 thousand · 2025 |
| Latvia | 0.3% · 2 thousand · 2025 |
| Norway | 0.2% · 7 thousand · 2025 |
| Sweden | 0.2% · 13 thousand · 2025 |
| Ireland | 0.2% · 6 thousand · 2025 |
| Cyprus | 0.2% · 1 thousand · 2025 |
| Finland | 0.2% · 5 thousand · 2025 |
What do they earn?
Mean gross monthly earnings in the major occupational group (Craft and related trades workers). Eurostat's earnings survey only publishes pay by occupation at 1 digit, so this is the job's broader group. Enterprises with 10+ employees, 2022.
By country, at purchasing power parity (PPS/month), so countries with different price levels can be compared.
- Switzerland4,098
- Iceland3,826
- Denmark3,666
- Norway3,260
- Belgium2,979
- Germany2,859
- Luxembourg2,760
- Sweden2,733
- Netherlands2,717
- Austria2,715
- Finland2,711
- EU272,364
- Italy2,314
- Ireland2,200
- Spain2,124
- France2,122
- Malta2,032
- Slovenia2,012
- Lithuania2,008
- Greece1,799
- Estonia1,795
- Poland1,787
- Czechia1,781
- Cyprus1,751
- Romania1,734
- Hungary1,684
- Latvia1,680
- Slovakia1,672
- Croatia1,505
- Portugal1,285
- Bulgaria1,217
Source: Eurostat Structure of Earnings Survey (earn_ses22_21), every four years. The United Kingdom is not covered by the survey.
Outlook to 2035
Employment in the Handicraft and printing workers group according to Cedefop's 2026 forecast.
thousand · Cedefop Skills Forecast 2026 · 2026–2035: projection
Replacement demand is the jobs left by people retiring or changing careers — even a shrinking occupation can have many openings.
Related occupations
- Precision-instrument makers and repairers21
- Glass makers, cutters, grinders and finishers19
- Jewellery and precious-metal workers18
- Potters and related workers18
- Sign writers, decorative painters, engravers and etchers18
- Musical instrument makers and tuners14
- Handicraft workers in textile, leather and related materials13
Sources: ILO WP140 (2025) · Eurostat lfsa_egai2d · Cedefop Skills Forecast 2026 · WEF Future of Jobs 2025 · ESCO. The exposure score measures how much of an occupation's tasks generative AI could perform — not whether the job disappears. For information only, not career advice. How do we calculate this?