Volume II — Number 116
December 2018
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Peter Bremers Crafts or not.
M. A. Carretero.
In the present edition of the Feria de Artesanía of the Community of Madrid it seems that a certain disparity of criteria has arisen in relation to what is or is not crafts and that certain products must or should not participate in the Fair.
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product in the form of helmets, sheets, rods, silica sand, etc., and that, by means of the different stained glass techniques, such as blown to the air or in mold, of the rod worked with torch, thermoforming, hot melting or fusing, or several others, convert the original product into a new product endowed with a certain shape and a certain beauty and mastery.
methods while maintaining high temperatures and a subsequent controlled cooling process to prevent undesired breakage.
For all this, the organizers of the fairs or other events that want to offer the public truly artisan products, with proven quality, made by true masters who want to To illustrate this theme I equip the crafts with the put for example a certain necessary respect of the necklace of Swaroski public who knows they will glasses in which its not be deceived in the creator buys the glass acquisition of a product and thread in a concrete Second, craftsmanship requires a trade achieved that, while it may have a warehouse and only high price at first sight, is produces the necklace by through years of experience; It requires a endowed with a quality inserting the glasses in complex know-how and and rigor in its the thread and then learned through many implementation that makes putting it on sale. hours of work supervised the quality / price ratio is We can see this type of products quite regularly in by a teacher or many more much higher than at first hours of solitary sight . fairs that are called experimentation. But this requires a truly "craft". Can you call this crafting? Third, the artisan product comprehensive education is endowed with a culture work. In our country, I do not think so, in any with symbolic and generally, the public is not way. ideological values of the aware of the difference in terms of the quality of the local culture. This type of products products offered to them would fit, in my point of In the case of glass, its as artisans. view, in a demonstration manipulation requires of handicrafts, not of great skill and handling in Therefore, their criteria artisan production. a very special way by the when purchasing this type artisan, making it an art of of product is defined by its The craftsmanship price. A serious error but of requires, in the first place, difficult domain. what can not be a manipulation of the The craft is something original product. else. It does not require a considered as responsible, given that it lacks the thorough and intense In the case of objects training. It does not require necessary training to made with glass, it a manipulation of the raw discern between a truly requires that the artisan artisanal product but with a material to convert it and acquires the original high price and another endow it with a transformation capacity in that, being a craft or an a different product. It does industrial product, will allow it to disburse a much not require great skill in cheaper price. handling the products. It does not endow the I hope and wish that the realized product with a organizers of the Craft specific ancestral culture. Market of the Community of Madrid this Christmas In the case of glass, it have used a firm criterion does not require any to offer the public a true casting technique and subsequent application of craft. complex transformation