The workshop and house are now sadly derelict, this film remains as a monument to those fantastic craftsmen of old... www.google.co.uk/maps/@54.065135,-7.4761928,3a,90y,189.74h,95.42t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sA4dDvPswKNMvC0iocHSS3g!2e0!5s20190801T000000!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu
I did a bit of digging online and the last mention I could find of this company was from 2012 when it seemed all the brothers had died and a relative had inherited the company but was no longer running it.
El junco materia prima que te permite rellizar una diversidad de artesania de tipo utilitario y decorativo .cestos ,alfombras ,muebles,papeleras infinidad de trabajos es hermoso ver ue el junco es internacional .tambien en PERU TRBAJAMOS CON JUNCO ES HERMOSO.
Amazing, thanks. They need to stop importing foreigners to Ireland and realize they are an extreme worldwide minority that needs to be preserved. It is a Satanic agenda to destroy them.
I posses 55 things in my life, each very carefully writen down in my personal balance, and each month i choose what to threw out or exchange. I could not imagine to have more than 100 things in my house... It owuld make me stressed out and nuts.
I learnt how to make one years ago over a week with an instructor, it was the most satisfying week I have ever had . They are a bit of a work of art to handle but once you know how to its f8ne
You can see in the die at 1:40, that saw was used until it was blunt, then repurposed as an improvised file on the other side to carve a groove, and then repurposed as the die. That piece of metal has seen more work days than any of us.
Even designed and printed their own letter head - just amazing, it's not even just the skills and knowledge that are being lost it's the mind set that one can make what one needs. The convenience of ordering online or going to Office Depot to get letterheads and stationary, is progress but how many of us think "I could make that if I wanted".
EC 2:24 There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.
The old Irish way of having families seems to have been feast or famine: either they marry and have 7-10 children, or they never marry at all! So many of the men featured in this series appear to have never married and live together with a brother or two. In another program, there were 6 unmarried siblings living together on the family farm (4 brothers, 2 sisters), and another 4 siblings left for the “wide world.” They rarely are shown speaking and, when one of them does, I’m shocked enough that I have to go back a bit to make sure, bc I don’t always see their mouths move (like the Tin Man!)! If a craftsman doesn’t marry, he doesn’t have children, and if he doesn’t have children, he’s got nobody to whom he can pass along his wide knowledge and the tools of his art. I see the Robinsons had a nephew, but one boy can’t grow up to do the work of three men.
The change of pace while using the Fretsaw (even tho it’s more closely a scroll saw in my opinion) from the older craftsman to the young and obviously eager apprentice was a wonderful thing to see and listen to.
Irish people had so many skills until i guess fairly recently. These doco's are such an important resource and historic record. Ppl who used to make things, they survive hopefully to pass the skills on. :)
Don’t worry there are still many people who still toil with just as much craftsmanship as these fellows. They are many craftsmen in many sheds and garages around the world who are just hobbyists and still strive for mastery of carpentry. Problem is nobody wants to pay for the handcrafted furniture anymore. Instead they shop IKEA for mass produced particleboard junk. I’m one of those hobbyists in my own garage.
Thanks for posting this lovingly edited series OtherLives. Dress everybody in period clothes, take away the cars, the electric and some of the equipment and we could be in the 17th century, even the conversations and curious kids wouldn't be out of place. Like many people I work with my hands and always liked to draw and copy but instead of cabinet making I went into lime plastering and learned about pargetting, making designs in plaster and mortar which. just like marquetry, has also been around for centuries.
