From the workshop to the field
In the 20th century technology and automation have significantly changed the way in which we produce and manufacture goods. In this video gallery, craftsmen and -women from Germany and Central Europe show their outstanding skills.
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Harvesting rushes (Scirpus lacustris) with a boat and bringing in big bunches, tying them to small bundles which dry outside until they are yellow.
From dried rushes (Scirpus lacustris) two six-strand plaits of 81 m length are made which are sewn together forming a carpet of about 3 x 2 m.
Making sheaf binders from two marsh plants (Glyceria spectabilis and Typha latifolia). They are twisted together by hand, i. e. first knotted and then twisted together and finally bundled.
From dried rushes (Scirpus lacustris) a long, three-strand plait is made which is woven to a mat of about 50 x 75 cm.
A long and broad sixstrand plait from dried rushes (Scirpus lacustris) is bent in the middle and both ends are spirally rolled in to a round, flat-cylindrical footstool. Finally, the edges of the straps are seamed up from the outside to the inside.
The film shows flax-spinning. The fine yarn is spun by the farmer's wife, the tow by the maid. The film presents both spinning procedures in comparison, in order to point out the different working methods. It shows all the stages of the spinning proce…
Farmers move to an Alpine pasture to get hay from a block hut. On arrival there the hut is opened. They hay is being bundles and dragged on a Farkel (sort of wooden sledge) to the end of the forest. For the transport movable skids are important. Downwards…
In an ancient burning-place in the Kermeter charcoal-burners raise a charcoal-pile as it was used up to the seventies. First the base of the pile, the so-called sole, is levelled and measured. Then the cone-shaped stack of wood, composed of two sets and t…
The DVD contains six EC-films on the rural life of South Tyrol (St. Magdalena, Gsies): hay harvest in the mountains (E 842), flax harvest (E 790), flax processing: rippling - breaking - hackling (E 793), flailing rye (E 730), bread baking (Annually) in a …
The DVD contains six EC-films on the rural life of South Tyrol (St. Magdalena, Gsies): making a breadcutter (E 1088), making a butter churn (E 1164), churning (E 1089), grinding in a rural mill (E 1221), preparation of cheese on an Alpine pasture in the G…
After spinning, the yarn is wound around a reel to achieve uniform lengths for ease of further processing. Thereafter, the yarn is boild in potash leach, and then rinsed twice: one time in ice-cold running water of a brook, and another time in hot water a…
The weir, the head race, the undershot water wheel and the power transmission in the main power unit in the cottage are shown, then the works at the dry and wet grindstone and further grinding operations.
Operation of a water driven forge with overshot wheel at the west slope of the Leybach valley (Remscheid-Lüttringhausen).
Masks and the carving of masks have a long tradition in the Ahrn Valley. Today there are still six mask-carvers to be found there. The film shows step by step the fabrication of a devil's mask with cow horns set on it.