Craft and related trades workers · code 7317
Handicraft workers in wood, basketry and related materials
Handicraft workers in wood, basketry and related materials apply traditional techniques such as seasoning or impregnation to prepare wood, straw, rattan, reeds, 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 such as bristles, nylon, fibre, bass, whisker and wire to make wicker furniture, brushes and brooms, and to weave various kinds of baskets. Tasks include - (a) preparing wood, straw, rattan, reeds, shells or similar materials; (b) carving floral and artistic designs on wooden surfaces for decorative purposes; (c) painting freehand decorative designs on glass and pottery or porcelain ware; (d) 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; (e) carving, assembling, weaving and painting various decorative articles such as statues and other sculptures, chess pieces, jewellery and similar objects; (f) making wicker furniture from peeled and softened rattan, reeds, rushes, willow branches and similar materials; (g) making various kinds of baskets by interlacing osier, rattan, reeds, rushes and similar materials; (h) forming bottoms of baskets by interlacing strips of rattan, wood veneer or other materials with frameworks of rods of material such as willow; (i) inserting rods around bottom edges between woven sections of bottom and bending them upright to serve as framework for sides; (j) selecting and preparing brush materials such as bristles, nylon, fibres and wire, and setting them in brush base; (k) selecting and preparing materials such as broom corn, bass, whisker and fibre, and fastening them to broom handles. Examples of the occupations classified here: - Basket maker - Brush maker - Reed weaving handicraft worker - Wicker furniture maker - Wooden articles handicraft worker Some related occupations classified elsewhere: - Machine operator (wood products) - 7523
None of this job's tasks scored high enough to count. It ranks 54 of 427 for holding up against AI.
Also known as
- artisan papermaker
- woodcarver
- basketmaker
- wicker furniture maker
- toymaker
- brush maker
Job titles from the EU's ESCO list. Search for any of them on the jobs page and you'll end up here.
against AI Not Exposed
AI could take on 13.6 of 100, on average
so it holds up at 100 − 13.6 = 86.4
That's the whole sum, and you can check it against the ILO's study.
out of 100
From O*NET, matched to one US job
and cramped
finger skill 58.9 · hand skill 50 · cramped spaces 9.7 · averaged
Kind of hands-on work · hands-on 50+ · fiddly 39.4+ Hands-on, fiddly work in tight spaces
More fine handwork, and more time in cramped or awkward spots, than a typical hands-on job. That is exactly what machines find hardest: they do best in tidy, predictable places.
estimated O*NET 31.0 BLS occupational crosswalk chain ISCO-08 to 2010 SOC (Aug 2012, rev. Jun 2015); 2010 to 2018 SOC (Nov 2017); O*NET-SOC 2019 taxonomy data 0.7-work-setting measures chosen by Frey & Osborne (2017) · the grouping is a sorting, not a measurement
This number is probably too high
This score only looks at AI tools like chatbots. It doesn't look at robots at all — and this job rates 50.1 out of 100 for how hands-on it is, which is exactly where robots come in.
Have a look at the tasks below and judge for yourself. The ILO scored them low because a chatbot can't do them. Whether a machine with hands could is a different question, and we can't answer it yet.
The tasks behind the score
The score is the average of these. A job is really a bundle of tasks, and an average can hide how uneven that bundle is.
The task AI could do most of scores 14.8, while the average is 13.6. A big gap means some of this job is wide open to AI and some of it barely at all. That's quite different from a job where everything sits somewhere in the middle, even when the averages match.
- 14.8
Painting freehand decorative designs on glass and pottery or porcelain ware
Very Low - 14.8
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
Very Low - 14.8
Carving, assembling, weaving and painting various decorative articles such as statues and other sculptures, chess pieces, jewellery and similar objects
Very Low - 14.5
Making various kinds of baskets by interlacing osier, rattan, reeds, rushes or similar materials
Very Low - 14
Carving floral and artistic designs on wooden surfaces for decorative purposes
Very Low - 14
Making wicker furniture from peeled and softened rattan, reeds, rushes, willow branches and similar materials
Very Low - 13.8
Selecting and preparing brush materials, such as bristles, nylon, fibres and wire, and setting them in brush base
Very Low - 12.9
Forming bottom of basket by interlacing strips of rattan, wood veneer or other material with framework of rods of material such as willow
Very Low - 12.5
Inserting rods around edge of bottom between woven sections of bottom and bending them upright to serve as framework for sides
Very Low - 11.8
Preparing wood, straw, rattan, reeds, shells, or similar materials
Very Low - 11.5
Selecting and preparing materials, such as broom corn, bass, whisker and fibre, and fastening them to broom handles.
Very Low
11 tasks · the High to Very Low labels are the ILO's
from the source Working Paper 140, Generative AI and Jobs 2025 index data 0.7-work-setting
Helped, or replaced?
The score above can't tell a tool that makes you faster from one that does the task instead of you. Jobs and Skills Australia looked at those two things separately, and this is their result, matched to this job.
2 Australian jobs match this one, and we've simply averaged them. Treat the numbers as a rough guide.
- AI helps you
- 57.5
- AI does it for you
- 21
Helping wins by 36.5 points.
estimated Our Gen AI Transition (Gen AI Capacity Study) September 2025 detailed data release data 0.7-work-setting matched to Australian jobs 2114, 3942
Compared with similar jobs
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- Spray painters and varnishers 88.1
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