Stone and wood carving is a skill and talent passed down through generations by different craftsmen who have left their mark in decorating the house walls, door stones, windows, and household appliances, such as: washbasins, cupboards, various paintings, musical instruments, kitchen utensils, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is an early tradition, with various works having been performed mainly by craftwork, i.e., hand-made using a chisel and a hammer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The raw material, namely the stone used for the works is found locally, mainly from Guri i Zi surroundings, while the stone used for larger works is taken from Berat and Skrapar. As regards woodwork, mulberry wood is preferred because of its color and time-resistance peculiarity; yet, walnut, chestnut, maple, and olive wood are used as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Stone Carving<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Stonework goes through the following steps:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Initially, the object to be carved is selected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stone drawing of the object is performed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Large pieces are cut away by giving the required shape using a claw hammer or other tool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The master begins to shape the object using a special chisel and hammer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The object takes on fine shapes using a small chisel, a pointed chisel, and a comb chisel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The finer the work, the smaller the chisel selected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Every 30-minute work is followed by a 10-minute inspection to check for or detect defects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Once the work is finished, the master uses a stone cutter to work on the smallest details of the object and to give its final shape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Wood Carving<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Woodwork goes through the following steps:<\/p>\n\n\n\n The wood species is selected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The object to be carved is selected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A preliminary decoration is drawn on paper and then cast on wood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Large pieces are cut out using a chisel, hammer, and saw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Having removed some pieces with a chisel, work proceeds with milling cutters and files of different sizes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The masterworks on the object with sandpaper comes in a range of grit sizes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Once the carving is finished, the process follows with wood color toning and varnish treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Stone and wood carving is a skill and talent passed down through generations by different craftsmen who have left their mark in decorating the house walls, door stones, windows, and household appliances, such as: washbasins, cupboards, various paintings, musical instruments, kitchen utensils, etc. It is an early tradition, with various works having been performed mainly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[853,855],"tags":[870],"class_list":["post-3347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malsi-e-madhe-municipality","category-shkoder-municipality","tag-traditional-craftsmanship"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regjistritkj.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET","POST","PUT","PATCH"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regjistritkj.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regjistritkj.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regjistritkj.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regjistritkj.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3347"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/regjistritkj.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3998,"href":"https:\/\/regjistritkj.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3347\/revisions\/3998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regjistritkj.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regjistritkj.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regjistritkj.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}