High electricity bills shut down trades in Skopje's old bazaar. After 10 years the craft of tailoring can be lost. Some even worked for holidays.
"Mirdita Are you tired? Do you have work? Today is a holiday but you are working, how is your work?
"We don't have a party. Well, it's not the way it should be, the way it was, it's not. But we are trying. Although it is a holiday we have to work. This is the situation". (00-26)
Rexhep Ameti has been working as a tailor in the old Bazaar of Skopje for 40 years. He has decided to open the workshop even today to repair since no one is interested in sewing anything.
Amet is one of the few tailors who is keeping this craft alive. Most young people are not interested in "stealing" the craft.
"I believe that after 10 years there will be no one to sew. There will be no one to make repairs. There are no apprentices, there are no people who want to learn this trade. Young people don't want it? No, there isn't. I have not even brought my children here because there is no account. For 40 years, he has been doing this job just for a lifetime, there is nothing better", declared Rexhep Ameti, a tailor.
The economic crisis, the rising cost of electricity is making the work of artisans in the old Bazaar of Skopje even more difficult. The price of their electricity bills has doubled, and some of them are thinking of closing their shops if the Government does not come to their aid./KlanMacedonia/
