Word: craftsmen
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...This enthusiasm is motivating Europe's new generation of craftsmen and women to continue learning - and adapting - centuries-old skills. So that maybe 300 years from now what they make with hands and heart may, like the Servais cello, still be a thing of beauty. And in perfect working order...
...gondolas. So he began wandering around the city. He eventually stumbled across the Squero San Trovaso, and with the help of a translator told the men working there that he had experience building wooden boats and that he'd like to learn how to make a gondola. The craftsmen informed this smart American kid that they didn't have time for on-the-job training. "Their attitude was that if I had graduated from college, I obviously didn't know how to work with my hands," recalls Price with a laugh...
...these craftsmen is Saverio Pastor, who makes both oars and forcole in his workshop near the old Arsenal. Pastor learned his craft from the last maestro in Venice. "What I like is grabbing those huge trunks and bringing the forcola out of them," he says...
...Outsourcing to myriad tiny specialized workshops was the key to local industrial organization until the late 19th century, when a few pioneers had the idea of bringing all these craftsmen together under one roof. The Billodes factory, which opened in Le Locle in 1865, was among these precursors. But as the peasant-craftsmen became factory workers, a new means of passing on their specialized know-how became necessary. "It's the factories that created the modern training system," says Gérard Triponez, director of the college in Le Locle. "Before then, craftsmen would train a couple of apprentices themselves...
...Riedel's flagship crystal is still produced in the time-honored way, with glowing lumps of molten glass mouth-blown into cast-iron molds and fitted with hand-fashioned stems and bases by master craftsmen working in two factories at Kufstein, in the Austrian Tyrol near the German border, and at Schneegattern, north of Salzburg. Riedel glasses are near-perfect examples of ongoing innovation in traditional craftsmanship...