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Editorial: Can Traditional Crafts Help Us Save the World?

Editorial: Can Traditional Crafts Help Us Save the World? Editorial Can Traditional Crafts Help Us Save the World? Eivind FALK, Guest Editor I know a skilled traditional basket maker, Hege Iren Aasdal (Norsk håndverksinstitutt, 2022), who lives and works in the western part of Norway. Her favorite material is willow. She doesn’t have to walk far, just down the road, to find the perfect material for her baskets. She uses traditional hand tools for collecting the willow, and for splitting the material. The making of the basket is done by hand, as it has been done for generations. Hege’s baskets are beautiful and will last for centuries. When necessary, they can also easily be repaired. To sum it up, the production of Hege’s baskets requires no gasoline for the transport of materials, no use of environmentally unfriendly materials, no electricity for production, the materials are renewable, and finally, when the basket is broken it can return to nature, and in the end, become new trees. So, when asking if traditional crafts can help us save the world, Hege’s basketry could be one of several examples. In article 2 of the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, Traditional crafts are defined as one of five http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Culture Society Economy Politics de Gruyter

Editorial: Can Traditional Crafts Help Us Save the World?

Falk, Eivind
Culture Society Economy Politics , Volume 2 (1): 3 – Jun 1, 2022
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Editorial Can Traditional Crafts Help Us Save the World? Eivind FALK, Guest Editor I know a skilled traditional basket maker, Hege Iren Aasdal (Norsk håndverksinstitutt, 2022), who lives and works in the western part of Norway. Her favorite material is willow. She doesn’t have to walk far, just down the road, to find the perfect material for her baskets. She uses traditional hand tools for collecting the willow, and for splitting the material. The making of the basket is done by hand, as it has been done for generations. Hege’s baskets are beautiful and will last for centuries. When necessary, they can also easily be repaired. To sum it up, the production of Hege’s baskets requires no gasoline for the transport of materials, no use of environmentally unfriendly materials, no electricity for production, the materials are renewable, and finally, when the basket is broken it can return to nature, and in the end, become new trees. So, when asking if traditional crafts can help us save the world, Hege’s basketry could be one of several examples. In article 2 of the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, Traditional crafts are defined as one of five

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Culture Society Economy Politics – de Gruyter

Published: Jun 1, 2022

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