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Cane Furniture Maker
OFO Code: 661703
Last checked 7 October 2026
1. Occupation identity
- OFO code
- 661703
- Occupation
- Cane Furniture Maker
- 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
- 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
Demand evidence unavailable
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3. Salary evidence
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5. Qualification
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7. Industry, sector and provincial context
National occupation classification. Industry and provincial context are shown only where a separate official source supports the link.
No source-backed modern OFO↔SIC 7 industry link has been ingested for this occupation yet. PathLens does not infer one from the job title.
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9. Decision tools
10. Sources for this page
- DHET Organising Framework for Occupations (OFO 2021) · Ingested · identity spine active
Canonical OFO identity data has been ingested and validated. 1511 occupation records are recorded in the ingest artifact. - DHET Occupations in High Demand · Validated pipeline · graph publication not confirmed
The governed OIHD pipeline is active, but a successful populated graph run is not currently confirmed on this deployment. - Critical Skills List · Monitored · occupation linkage pending
Official migration sources are monitored, but PathLens does not infer visa eligibility or occupation-level eligibility from monitoring alone. - QCTO qualifications and occupational certificates · Candidate staging ready · not published
Qualification staging and human review are implemented; no qualification↔OFO relationship is published without an explicit source identifier or governed human review. - Stats SA Quarterly Labour Force Survey · Acquisition active · no approved evidence on this deployment
Official QLFS artifact discovery is active. Dataset-specific schema, weighting, reliability and review gates remain separate; a discovered artifact or executable estimator does not itself create a public claim. - SETA Sector Skills Plans / hard-to-fill vacancy tables · Partial · explicit source links only
PathLens preserves explicit source-backed SETA/activity links where present and does not infer modern SIC relationships from occupation titles.