The Macedonian woodcarving achieves its culmination in the first half of the 19th century with the design of the iconostasis in the church St. Spas in Skopje and monastery St. Jovan Bigorski situated in the valley of Radika river. The period of the 19th century becomes a century of Macedonian peasants – woodcarving and fresko painters (zografi). By working on the iconostasis, the woodcarvers as unique artists in the Christian east region, pondered in the heart of the wood searching for its most melodic expression. With their tools they revealed the magnificent forms of the massive pillars of nut tree, thus imagining and carving the scenes of the Old and New Testimony. Records of the Macedonian peasants work coming from the slopes of Bistra mountain and the valley of Radika river are preserved till today. In period before and after the First World War the craft of woodcarving began to decline sharplu. In 1928 in order to renew this artistic activity the academic sculptor Branislav Jovancevik founded the artistic woodcarving school in Debar. In 1930 this school was transferred to Ohrid. After the Second World War a school for woodcarving will be founded in Ohrid which later on it will be transferred to Skopje as a department of the school for applied art. Woodcarving in Ohrid was launched again in the second period of the 20th century. Thus, in the course of many years of work in the artistic atelier for woodcarving school in Ohrid and Debar as true followers of the rich woodcarving traditions in Macedonia, created a number of pieces with an extraordinary artistic value.