The traditional woodworker was both artisan and craftsperson. They invented as well as made, dreamed as well as calculated. Good design does not require a specialized professional or creative genius. It is the logical result which flows from a small handful of geometrical principles put into practise.
For that reason, a core part of the craft is the ancient practise of classical geometry with compass and straight-edge. The same skills that underpin good design in the workshop underpin the sacred architecture of Hindu temples, Gothic cathedrals, and the Great Pyramid. These are transferable skills that will help you draw and design better, as well as help you to detect, decode, and appreciate the basic elements and approaches of traditional and sacred architecture, ornament, and furniture design the world over.

In fact, some of the greatest minds humanity has produced claim it will do much more: 

• “It is through these studies that one purifies the inner eye, an organ worth more than ten thousand eyes” (Plato, Greece, 5th century BCE). 

• “By depending on these lines (of compass and straight edge) the soul of form becomes manifest… by meditation on the that comes absorption in the divine… and from that, the meditator themself becomes divinised.” (Vāstusūtra upaniṣhad, Atharvaveda, ≤ 1200 BCE"

• "This science is one of the gates through which we move to the knowledge of the essence of the soul, and that is the root of all knowledge.” (from Rasa’il, by the Ikhwan al-Safā,  10th century, Iraq.)

• "Geometry is a bridge from the immaterial to the material. That is why it supports sacred art: it leads you to that which will always be true. "(Keith Critchlow, Master Geometer, 20th century)