In Kicevo’s dreadful deficit of craftsmen painters

Like many crafts, the molar craft in Kicevo dies quietly. The number of masters dealing with plastering works in the city is increasing each year, and the main reason for the great fall of masters is to leave abroad, primarily in Germany. They in many and there deal with the same craft, but for much more money, while a number of painters deal with similar crafts such as tile placement and more.
The city has mostly masters in advanced years, some of whom will quickly end its participation in the Molly craft. One of them, who has been in the past five decades, is the master Mile Vojne, who is less and less, because age and poorer health do not allow him.
– When I started dealing with the molar craft, there were many masters in Kicevo in Kicevo, and many young people started learning this craft and often worked with their masters to roast the mollusc craft well. The number of painters in the city was high until ten years ago, when departure abroad became a real trend and increasingly the paintings decided to leave the country and start earning bread in one of the Western European countries. The departure of increasing masters and the smaller influx of young people contributed to the number of painters decreasing, and there is a real danger that their number in the near future will be insufficient to fully respond to the city’s obligations – said the oldest master in Kicevo.
Citizens comment that the time of the great interest in the Molly craft has ended irreversibly.
– More than obvious in our city the number of painters is getting smaller and lower, with a tendency to be reduced to a minimum very soon. There will be no masters we can hire to whitewash homes. In addition, the number of real masters who have mastered this craft is increasingly smaller and therefore more omissions can be observed – says Krste Treneski, an older resident of Kicevo.

Text and Photo: Zoran Antoski