How 11 Ancient Crafts Survived For Centuries | Still Standing | Insider Business
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- Опубліковано 15 тра 2024
- From mole ground with a traditional tool in Mexico, to metal art forged with ancient wax-casting techniques in India, and shea butter made by women artisans in Ghana, we got an inside look at businesses around the globe to see how their centuries-old traditions are still standing.
00:00:00 Introduction
00:00:26 Camel Skin Lamp
00:06:27 Shea Butter
00:15:40 Thai Pearl Inlay
00:23:15 Indian Dhokra Art
00:33:56 Cambodian Silk
00:44:14 Thai Khon Mask
00:52:52 Mexican Mole
01:01:40 Pumpkin Tanpura
01:14:40 Bali Salt
01:22:46 Jute Mats
01:31:23 Bonsai Scissors
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How Traditional Crafts Around The World Have Survived For Centuries | Still Standing
It would be great if you could provide the contact information of creators in the description so that the viewers can buy their products directly. This will be of tremendous support for creators.
Agreed!
They do publish these people's stories as articles on their news site and they do include links for finding them!
Yes please.
@@lindenshepherd6085 so happy to hear that! Although it’s weirdo behavior for them to not link support for the artisans in the videos, considering BI probably makes crazy profits off the videos compared to those featured. (Ps I’m being sincere, not catty or anything! Thank you for enlightening us about the articles 🥰)
I would like to know that
I would love to see you include links where we might buy from these craftspeople! Their work is beautiful and it would be great to know how to support them.
I agree with you. By providing links we can support these craftspeople and stop the huge corporations from shutting the craftspeople down.
Gotta admit that's a damn good idea. These people are what makes the show and should have the opportunity to sell more considering the new world wide exposure they are getting.
I literally revisited my history to look for links to the suppliers. so sad there are none.
It's just more exploitation of these artisans it seems. Links wouldn't have been all that hard.
Completely agree, how do you spotlight them and then not link so we can support them if we choose. I REALLY want a camel skin lamp, absolutely gorgeous. It's unbelievable to me that they are as cheap as they are
As someone from india, where my mother also prefers traditional rock grinder(Sil Batta) which is very similar to a Metata, I agree that it gives a totally different flavour entirely. It always feel lacking in a blender.
She even looks Indian.
Hhhhhhhh.
not only you... most of us.
I agree 100%
@thebanned2807 blech, an asshole in the comment section.
I wish the producers of this video would have provided a link to the Shea Butter sales contact that these ladies make, so we can start to send them orders again.
I was thinking the same thing - if they had left contact info on this video, they would help those ladies feed their families. I know myself, and lots of others, would pay a higher price for local artisan's products versus a big company.
Yesss. I buy mine from Africa imports. I get the one that's from Ghana. It's not cheap but the sells go back into the community. I'm trying to find more companies like this.
exactly! i’d loooooooove some of their shea butter. and for my $ to go right to them.
Still waiting
@@carolinegween3485 waiting for what? Someone before you already found their operation online
I would prefer to buy the Shea butter these ladies make than a commercially produced product any day, if I could afford it. Although the camel skin lamps wouldn’t go with my decor, I think they are not only very beautiful but a marvellous use of available materials. Well done to all the artisans. I so appreciate your work and wish I was wealthy enough to translate my appreciation into hard cash for you.
it is also mde in india known as mahua butter
I agree. The lamps are beautiful. If I were a Camel I would be honored to have my skin turned into something beautiful like that
If you can get local it’s affordable! Companies all steal someone’s original ideas and copy, always try to get the source
Yeah those lamps are stunning.
Not only that, the Shea butter from these women definitely have the original quality that industry machine made Shea butter lacks. It's quality vs quantity here, because the original traditional way is time tested and has been used for centuries for good reason. The people of the past refined the technique to what it is today.
Harakawa Yasuhiro the bonsai scissor maker really grabbed my heart! He is so proud of what he does... I hope one of his sons decides to learn... He worries so much about the time he has left and the orders he has to make.... all of these people are amazing... someone here wrote that they need to put a site where people can order these products... I really wish they would...
ABSOLUTELY 💯
I just googled 'Bonsai scissors' and found a shop that sells them. In the Netherlands. Google is your friend.
Where can I order
Some bonsai sissors can be sold for thousands of dollars, some over 10 thousand. Why, I have no idea. If I was spending 10 grand on some steel, it would be likely a samurai sword.
When I will earn money I will do it myself for my tribal Hindus/ buddhist / sikhs in India, Thailand, Bangladesh, Pakistan & Indonesia. These were the most ancient cultures. And it define us.
it truly breaks my heart to see how many covid has decimated,,,while filling the pockets of the richest! So so very sad! As an artisan, I find people just don't want to pay for real hand crafted, like they expect walmart prices for art pieces that took hours, days, and months to make. These arts are beautiful, thankyou for bringing this documentary, may each and every artisan be blessed
All because of the WEF's great reset agenda. its very sad.
Akasha Ofthenile- Your comment is excellent and spot on! The pandemic was the largest transfer of wealthy from the people to the ruling elite. It’s infuriating and heartbreaking!
@@BBB-rd2qi the sad part is these documenters get money for the Docs for credit and money. But they can't be bothered to do nothing but exploit the people in the Doc. Because they found the people know about the businesses. But can't be bothered to tell viewers how to purchase to support these people who are struggling to survive.
@@Hal-Blue - Great point! I’d love to support any of these businesses.
So provide a link to these absolutely amazing artist, so that people can purchase their works directly from them and not go through the middleman
OMG the Camel skin laps are just stunning! The craft of it. The paint work. Some of the most beautiful thing I've seen.
God bless all these people,there should be an international organization dedicated to help these traditional crafts continue and thrive
very well said♥
Amen🙏💞
when yor imbciels ,, dont buy or know how to appreciate art, they will need to get support, as a amtter of fact they dont need, they will jsut to go to another job, only some governmets guys know that this si wrong, but this just the world imebeciuality,,
@@anteneupitra What language is that ?
Like Mexican Metate (the grinding Stone), the same is also used traditionally in eastern India and Bangladesh for grinding spices. It has a flat rectangular shaped stone block as the platform and a round stone to roll on it (just like rolling-pin). My Grandma, Mother and even my wife used it until a few years back. Now a days, it is not so popular in cities but still used in villages.
Tamils in Eelam use a lot this, we also have so many different sort of food grinding stone are still available, more of them used by grandparents in the Tamils area.(Eelam is former British Ceylon and it is an Island south part of India)
We use this in Kerala also.... In Malayalam we call it 'ammikkallu'.
@@CJ-ud8nf yes same name in Tamil too ("ammikkallu")
We use it in South India too. We had a Sil (flat stone) and batta (grinder stone roll); and a mussal and owkli (pestle and mortar) built-in at my Grandparents house.
@@simim111 How wonderful to know that in South India it is called Sil-Bata - the same what a Bengali used to call too.
These people have more understanding of the importance of cultural preservation and respect for earth than anyone i know, even tho they didnt have traditional education. Respect.
@@matthewnienkirchen8083 I feel like it’s lowkey because they want to make the world feel like europe is so far removed from their primal days which is far from the truth.
As an artist myself, I L O V E seeing all these ancient crafts still being performed today. I would love to see more videos, maybe a series, on artisans handcrafting things.
What type of art do you enjoy creating?
Those camel skin artists are amazing!! I was shocked at the price, I was expecting much more - they are beautiful!
As a child, homemade bread was starting to become something that fewer people bothered to make or they left it for special occasions.
This in Madeira Island, Portugal. Bread made in a vulcanic stone oven with flour and sweet potatoes.
Luckily my cousins decided to learn the art from their mother. Both boys and girls and now some of the grandsons start to learn it too.
You can buy the same bread at the store, but it's really not the same. If you've tasted the homemade one, you know how fake the one from the store is.
The sweet potatoes need to be mixed in with the flour, this makes it harder and heavier to mix. Store bought often just add small pieces of sweet potatoes rigth at the end to make it look like it's the traditional one.
And there is one sort chourizzo (but not quite) that only one of my sisters in law continues to make. And I'm maybe the only one willing to help her. But everyone will come to eat it. That special dish will sadly soon disappear.
There were also handmade baskets, handmade embroidery, home woven carpets... lots of things that got slowly replaced or abandoned. It is sad to see these arts disappearing. But most require so much hard work that even as a piece of art, it's hard to keep the skill alive.
Joining the EU destroyed individual cultures in Europe.
What I've noticed is more of the lack of appreciation of these types of products. People seem to be ok with a piece that looks good but isn't the read piece of art.
And i believe it's because of people's lack of education. We don't teach our children the beauty of something handmade with natural materials. I live in mexico and see people trying to bargain with artisans all the time, and sadly, these artisans have to lower their prices just to be able to afford a living. And i think that's what goes on around the world with other artisans.
That and the fact that convenience is, well, convenient. We buy fast fashion because it's cheaper and we can buy more of it, but then it gets ruined and we dispose of it. Instead of buying quality items and having them fixed.
We don't appreciate the time and ability other things take, we buy bread in bags when out there, there is a baker that does it on a rock oven.
We have to show our children to appreciate all that it takes and that cheaper isn't better, even if it looks similar, it'll never be the same.
Homemade bread tastes nothing like commercially made bread. My mother’s bread was divine : )
So great to see that these craftmanships survived! Amazing how these people are still making such beautiful handmade products. Pure skill!🙌🏼
Its great to see that India and Thailand has so similar cultures too
Had I been born in any one of those places, and not been born with Arthritis, I would happily take up such traditional crafts! Especially the mother of pearl carving. ❤
please include links to these amazing artisans,so the world can support their beautiful ways.
The lamps were gorgeous
"the new generation is not interested in learning this craft" I feel like I want to travel there and get adopted so I can learn the craft and keep it going
I think the best way to keep these ancient crafts alive is to make the educational materials easily accessible online. Then those interested all over the world can learn
It really does help! However, the pitfall is if people spend all their time watching, and don't do it. You have to do it over and over to get skill.
That Cambodian Silk part! WOW. God bless Pheach and Crum and all the artisans. To bring this skill back shows how resilient the Cambodian people are--and omg the weaving! I work with textiles. Who knows, one day I may own a piece of Cambodian silk!
Also--You could do an entire show on the natural dyes sourced in the local forest.
The amount of time and effort going into each item or food item is amazing almost unbelievable in this day and age. I believe these become spiritual things that are so important in our human existence. Thank you for this incredibly informative program.
Just about everything is done by machines these days, even farming
In regards to "I believe these become spiritual things that are so important in our human existence."
I would consider this especially true in the case of factory farming. the human element is completely removed and the animals live out inhumane existences, trapped in a cage their entire short lives.
So much respect for Pheach and Crum in Cambodia. The genocide of the Cambodian people was horrific, it's incredible there were enough crumbs of knowledge left to resurrect the craft.
That floral pattern Malik is painting in shades of blue is super beautiful; I am imaging this as silk print. Wow! 👌🥰
Wow! I thought that Indian metal art was done by beating thin metal strips on to a cast. I didn't realize it was so complicated and delicate to make. Now I truly understand its value. My friend from India had a collection and I thought it was like cheap similar looking art that can be found at Mexican border towns. No doubt they put more care into their art than I thought too.
Wow great compliment! You thought it was cheap looking!
These are not art, these are spiritual, religious pursuits it seems.
I am spell bound at the dedication and pride these sages take in their work.
The Shea butter ladies really touched my heart. Their leader Portia soeaks so passionately about the trees and the business. I would love to buy from these ladies if given a chance or avenue
00:52:52 Mexican Mole! Her entire vibe is so sweet and kind! Food is community living and sharing together it's love, it's feeding your soul
@InsiderBusiness - PLEASE post contact info for the artisans in this video! Judging from the other comments, so many people are ready to support them 🙌
Jukkit and his mother of pearl craft is amazing ,such a nice man,I think his work is worth much more,
🙏❤️🙂🇹🇭Thank you so much.
What blender chefs don't realize is the metate is made of stone and after many uses it becomes seasoned. It will impart a unique flavor characteristic that you can't get with a blender. I love our history!
Didn't know I needed a camel skin lamp until today. Incredibly beautiful! And my thanks to the women who make shea butter.
The arts are very beautiful and details. I'm respected for these craftsmanship. Thank you for making this documentary.
I'm a Master Terrazzo Craftsman 34 years...my Son is second generation Terrazzo and I'm way more proud of the latter ✌️❤️🌍
The Indian metal technique from Chattisgarh was also mind blowing. I hope PPL esp. art collectors& interior designers pay decent prices for these artisans to continue & best of all is any art form done by hand will be unique even if he makes a 1000 Nandi's each will b a 1 off.
I’m glad these people are doing this work still.
The only way you can preserve these ancient crafts is by giving every person a Universal Basic Income worldwide. “Many had to quit the craft to make a living.”
A UBI is called love your neighbors, making sure all people are surviving, and have enough to meet their needs for their entire lifetime. Because someone can get too sick to ever work again.
Also you can save these crafts by making these videos.
I learned a special craft today. The craft is camel-skinned lamps and the lamps are beautiful...just beautiful😉
Crum is truly strong, despite all the hardships she never gave up. Bless her heart ❤️🙏
Edit: kudos to everyone working in the Cambodian silk industry!🫶
What a brilliant collection of videos! This is a really worthwhile watch to learn about artisans around the world and the things that they make.
I love how she said, that only people with peaceful hearts can work winding the silk treads.
I found the story of the mole incredibly beautiful. What a precious thing, to have an art so old, so valued, and so meaningful as that. I would like to give Evangelina a hug and buy her products!
Muchas gracias por su comentario.
This MOTHER OF PEARL Art form should be taught in the country’s Art,Craft,Design Degree Course at Universities. The Craftsmen who understand every nuance of this unique Art form, know that this will the last generation to construct these sculptural Arts, then it’ll be lost to History but it doesn’t have to be lost forever.
❤❤❤😊
For most of these crafts, it is the traditional culture of wherever the craft is from. For these things to survive, everyone has to pitch in. The artisans, the populos and the government. They all have their part to play in order that an important part of a nation's culture is never lost to eternity.
What a great pleasure to find this documentary, every country should embrace their traditional skills, the skills of indigenous peoples, artists working in ancient mediums, and support them as treasures, who knows, one day much of the practical crafts may be needed for survival, and art alone is an expression of love to the Earth and universe.
The grind stone (Sill bata) is much better than grinder and mixer. It's still in my home and I had used it as a teenager to make Garam masala and Biriyani masala. We should definitely keep these traditions alive
In mexico we call it a metate, my mom knows how to use it, but I've never learned, even though I want to.
Yes me too, I used to grind coconut and onion and other spices, The taste was so good, They still use it in India)"""'''''
I cannot fault the kids for striving for better. Still, what a shame so many crafts are being left to lie forgotten in the dust of history.
- 41:44 Poor Crum. 😢 I'm so glad to see her doing much better now. 💕 ❤
Blessings on all these people preserving the incredible crafts and products of their ancestors. Their work is beautiful. There is a sense of the spiritual and timelessness in what they do. Having these traditions continue connects us all to the past and shows what can be brought forth with care and practice. Thank you!
The beautiful camel skin lamps are wonderful. Can they be purchased in the USA?? . IGrowing up children that are taught the ways of their ancestors, many will explore in other things before embracing what they learned as a child. When the young are exposed to their elders they will want to learn all. It’s a joy and such a blessing.
Um dos melhores documentários que chá assisti na minha vida tem manter viva essas tradições
All these artisians..a big respect to them...keeping ancient knowledge alive against all odds !!!
These ancient ways are amazing.. thank you for showing this to the world!
Tons of research must have been done to make an entire movie out of this.
This was a delight to watch. I love the ancient talents continuing. Nothing electronic in sight. These are ingenious people. I wish they could get more money for their products. I’d like to taste the Black Sea salt. Thank you. Please make more of these artisan showcases. The quality of the narration and videography is excellent. There’s a program on the US’s public tv called Craft in America that I highly recommend. Thank you.
That shea butter looks sooooo tasty 😮❤
I also love the mother of pearl inlay work and the metal forged art pieces, that bull shown at the end is beautiful. My hats off to thee people. Amazing artistry and dexterity. I am grateful, and God bless them.
Fascinating! In some places there is such focus on beautiful art and then in others a focus on vocational or professional office type of work. Both are so important but there is a different value for art. I wish there were ways that artisans could earn a fair share of money from their creations.
The artisans and craftspeople were amazingly talented. I do hope you can provide their business links to buy directly from them. They really need to be supported. Thank you.
I have been hand making bread since the beginning of covid and have taken to gardening in order to make my own tea and liquor and just because I truly enjoy it. I've been finding myself wanting to learn how to make a lot of things by hand and I'm currently teaching myself how to sew my own clothes and make my own soap. Maybe someday I'll be good enough to sell some of my stuff.
Spectacular program. So worth taking the time to enjoy the sights, sounds, and conversation from some incredible artisans.
WOW absolutely Beautiful ❤️. I greatly appreciate all their hard work and talents. And those precious 🐪 too.
Excellent job, really enjoyed the whole presentation.
I have so much respect for all the hard work these people put into their craft and the women that make the shea butter all while all that work there absolutely amazing
These people and their crafts are amazing and very beautiful - thank you so much for sharing!💖
You have to admire the old was ,,the integrity they put into this product by hand is success all it’s own ,,,the sad fact big corporations come in steal their craft after they had worked so hard . Extraordinary people are to be saluted .
I really enjoyed this video; particularly the silk weaving and jute weaving. I have tried to spin silk out of cocoons. It is not easy. I would love to purchase some of these artisan`s products. Wish there were links provided.
I love seeing the Mexican Mole being made with no measuring utensils! Just pure eyeballing & feel like my abuela always did when cooking 😊
One of the most captivating videos of art, culture, dedication and skill I have yet seen. Well done to all involved in it's production.
Love seeing this!
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$7 for one of those lamps seems like a steal. I would buy one, where do you get it?
I'd pay up to £30 & be happy to do so!
I love all these ancient crafts being combined with some modern tools, whilst still preserving the art and keeping it eco-friendly and sustainable
That first video blew my mind. Had no idea animal hide could be used to make lamps like that. Awesome!
Sir ji❤️Thank you for making the best content possible for me to be my happiest day । I look forward to watching your videos!
Wow, very interesting. They work very hard for their craft, but the outcomes are spectacular!
Salute to all art masters in this world
Thank you for sharing and may your incredible art survive.
Mmm! Mole so good! Amazing beautiful lamps (wish I could buy one)!. As for the ladies who make Shea Butter, amazing that after a long day of work they can still walk home 2 miles with 55 pounds of shea nuts on their heads! Woman power, wow! *The entire world needs to start looking at our own hand-craftsman produced products and support them. It is important not to lose these ancient traditional crafts, these are things and knowledge to be preserved!*
The mexican cooking untensil is also used in india , ( in bengali we call it sheel nora) and is used to grind spices and make chutneys
I think you meant that similar utensil is used in India as in other parts of world for a common reason.
Southindia too
Those lamps need to sell for much more than that they're exquisite
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All beautiful!! I use unrefined Shea Butter but I'm finding it harder and harder to find. It helps with my eczema and not having any has been difficult. I would love to have links to order directly from them.
You can buy from
titiaka boressa shea butter
I am pleased to meet you💖😍🌹
Those tanpura are so beautiful and made by hand so well they should be sold for at least 1200.00$ dollars American. Maybe they could make a cheaper version for less but those hand made are such a higher quality. No less than 1200$ American. They are so exquisite and beautiful.
Thank you for shining light on these businesses!!
I really wish you would include links to where we can buy the products featured in these stories. I would love to buy a Dogra (sp?) piece from Dojendra! (sp?)
It would have been extremely helpful for Insider to have left links to these businesses.
33:26- I wish the state of art & artisans was much better in India. When we have fashion, textile designers minting money over brands simply bcz of glamour & marketing, then something like these extremely hard crafts deserve way better- not just recognition from the PM, but as a lucrative option as well.
I am so proud of these women and would love to be able to work among them. Their product screams NATURE AT ITS MOST EXCELLENT!!! Thank you, my Sisters and may Almighty GOD continue to bless and keep you and yours. 😊 12:45
Most of these people seem to have what ppl making more money do not. A sense of purpose, pride in their work and contentment.
I really enjoyed watching this doco its awesome, could you pls provide links for these Artisans
so that we can contact them if we wanna place an order either for Shea butter or a Tanpura or
anything else in this film cos, these Artists are fantastic! 👍🏼🤩🌻
Enjoyed each and every section, the bonsai and the salt caught my eye.
Hats off to all the artists. God bless!
I have huge respect and admire for people who do what they do with a full dedication on what they create and their families. No matter how luxury, what modern factories do can’t even stay close to this amazing labor. Hoping for these beautiful, hardworking and smiling people a better future.
i wish they’d add links to the ones that sell online. they mention that a lot of these do but i’m having trouble finding them.
I agree.
Wonderful docu, thank you Insider and those in the video and production, including these beautiful souls keeping their ancestors crafts alive, preserving these techniques for generations to come. I understand now where the saying "flying monkeys" comes from. 💕💗💕 thank you!
Jute mats were my favorite...and the camel skin lamps and the mother of pearl and lacquer and the silk and the metal animals.
They have about a thousand customers if they just advertised their website during this video. Their store sites should've been scrolling all across this video like a commercial. That goes with anything posted online now with anybody in the video. Everybody seems to have a side hustle these days or living with roommates to get by. I believe all families should have at least one craft skill. I remember my Grandfather making knifes. I need to get off my arse and stop watching other people make Beautiful pieces of art.
Seriously. I want to buy something from the several of the people featured in this video.
1:01:41 Those musical instrument makers in India could also diversify to make lamps out of dry pumpkin and various gourd shells. Great video.
My son visited Cambodia, visiting the villages, told me they are beautiful, kind, wonderful people
You know what I learned watching this… us Americans are lazy…. holy moly the talent and dedication it takes to keep these talents alive from one generation to the next…. Amazing and beautiful