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Why We Should Learn Traditional Crafts and Skills | The Epoch Times

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As Cuddeback points out, serving others’ needs is the most important way that we “take care of others.” This is yet another purpose of traditional crafts. The carpenter makes a chair that satisfies someone’s physical need (a place to sit) and their aesthetic need (its design and beauty.) The baker fills the stomachs of the hungry and produces a work of art. The rancher feeds and clothes people. Traditional crafts perfect the materials used to make them, the crafter, and the recipient. To carve wood or weave a basket with essentially the same tools our ancestors used connects usto their experience and the unchanging facet of human life. Traditional crafts reveal a truth about ourselves: As part of their nature, human beings are makers, crafters, inventors, and artists. We shape the world around us. Furthermore, crafts we enjoy as a hobby today were once essential to our ancestors’ survival. In performing them, we’re reminded of how hard they worked and the persistent precariousness of t

Traditional Culture Why We Should Learn Traditional Crafts and Skills By perfecting the crafts, they in turn perfect us. Save Mark Us Preferred on Google Print Crafts teach us patience and humility. Vera Prokhorova/Shutterstock Walker Larson 8/5/2024 | Updated: 8/9/2024 0:00 X 1 Socrates said that at the root of being human is the capacity and mission to “take care of things.” One way we express this mission is by doing traditional crafts: woodworking, animal husbandry, weaving, breadmaking, pottery, bookbinding, fly-tying. They all require us to work intimately with material objects to bring

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