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me find out what these 2 ladies on horseback are looking for in the water later on in the show. and with that a wall. welcome to this special edition of your max. today we will be exploring the world of professions and handicrafts that are only carried out a very few people here nowadays in europe. for example, we meet the last traditional fan maker in the french capital, paris, and we visit a studio in munich bavaria that specializes in high quality blast manufacture the art of using gold leaf in paintings, decorative arts and architecture dates back of thousands of years. but it's becoming increasingly hard to find hand beacon gold leaf these days. that is

because producing it this way is fading craft back in the year, 1700. there were 300 so called gold beat us in the italian city of venice today. however, there's only one family dedicated to this ancient tradition there. we visited the mario about her, but it was studios to see how they are keeping their gold live business alive. oh, much of what glitters here. ease, indeed, gold. for centuries, venice has flaunted its wealth with this precious metal. now very few craft men's shops are left that work gold by hand. the many goth so family runs one of the world's last gold beating shops under the name motto, barracka, becky laura gray, griffin, you don't really need that much strength for this work though it's all

a question of technique. can you got your technique actually helps you work with less effort for the mean of what to go? that's important because depending on how thin the gold is supposed to end up muted on, it'll take anywhere from 50 minutes to 2 and a half hours to hammer it out. today. in mesa, the purest $24.00 karat gold is melted at over $1000.00 degrees celsius and cast as a small bar, which by itself has a value of about $6000.00 euros. laura crystal and lingual this little gold bar is about 120 gramsci, depending on the thickness required of the gold leave. every more we can make 80026000 pieces from us in eudophoria. first the gold is passed through a rolling mail several times. pressing it thinner each time. it's rolled into a long ribbon heated, over and over, and put through the mill again. if we were to go on,

if the colors nice and yellow with lucky, you know, the gold is pure c, v to the i city jungle, the hugh tends towards rational. you know, it's an alloy, know she sold it might then contain silver or a little copper ego or the v. lager blue. when the gold ribbon is several meters long, it's cut into length, folded and cut again into little squares. sada many gods. so these, these between sheets of parchment to separate them during the beating the volume a packet consists of $330.00 less. but 1st there beaten with a machine and then quartered once more volume. and then while they're worked with a hammer over, i'm they so the rough or monkey let out both of them on the final step is the hammering. this is how gold leaf was made in venice a 1000 years ago. at that time,

there were no machines to help with the heavy work cristo or that is a hammer weighs 2 kilos. almost nothing, crispin, more than this one weighs more kilos. so it's a bit heavier. but for me that's nothing for some of them. and at 8 he lows. well this one's pretty heavy to the. the hammering produces thousands of these gossamer leaves. a single leaf weighs barely as much as a hare. ellia nora men, a god. so hopes this age old craft may be passed on to the next generation alan base. oh, it's a great responsibility because this very special work is in danger of dying out. and that's not a nice thought that this could one day just be forgotten for mileage. the weird pants. attic air force su out that, that in arc restorer and gilder elizabeth, the mass on uses a great deal of motto, better thought. but the laura's gold leaf in her workshop, he takes

a steady hand and the right conditions to work with this delicate material. even a gentle breeze could ruin everything. shimoda the fittings sat there. a difference between industrially produced and hand made gold leaf is enormous, would've been the industrial gold leaf is much thinner and more fragile. though, philip, it's really hard to do good work with the leaf tears easily. and in the end, it just doesn't look as good as the hand made gold leaf. it isn't that the finale ankin lady saying, ah, the angel, the top st. mark's company lay is among the works restored using gold leaf for mario. better about the laurel. thanks to an age old handicraft. the queen of the adrie attic shines on. ah! when you go to the beach, you might see a fishing boat on the horizon,

but have you ever seen a horse that is out fishing? well, in belgium, you might. that's because this is the only place in the world where fishermen and now women to venture out into the sea on horseback, to catch trip this ancient tradition dates back some 500 years. and there are only 17 people who still practice it. we got a 1st time glimpse of how it's done. ah graceful face long and yet at the same time, it's not with the gentlemen the serenity you have with your horse v undescribable. it's amazing. you can feel the strength of the animal you feel he's walking to see your on top, you see to see it's totally and peace. shrimp

fishing on horseback. the shore of the belgian town of ost down kirk is the only place where this is still done as it was over 500 years ago. nailer becker and her horse axle set out bright and early nailer is the world's 1st officially recognised female horseback shrimp. or in 2013 unesco, added the age old profession to its cultural heritage list under the condition that it had to be open to both men and women who no score is a like that even what only the recognition by unesco was the real reason why they let me become a horseback shrimp perfectly before that. it was a total mens club. i had to prove myself doubly in fact of it. but i succeeded brazen and now they've fully accepted me. are they abs awhile free to me that i could obey them? ah nella had to complete

a 2 year internship and passed several tasks in her main job. the mother of 3 works in a nursing home. but in our free time, she heads out to the beach 2 hours before low tide. one's in a we'll see the in the some days. we don't catch anything. on other days we haul in 10 kilos. let's wait and see. the method has barely changed over the centuries. during trim season, in the spring and autumn, the horses pull fine mashed nets over the sand beneath the surface. unlike fishing from boats, this method leads very little by catch in the nets. and it can be released straight back into the sea. but the bulging nets, their ancestors pulled up, are the stuff of legend for today's shrimpers. these days the stock is fished too intensively with large boats. after about half an hour nailer and fellow shrimp are a cutscene tappin, pull up the nets,

for the 1st time people gather to see what they've caught them all. hence, the catch might be meagre, but the horseback, fisher's drawing crowds of tourists to the belgian resort. to them out with a look here. these are fresh lives, friendly diversity. long to day 17 locals still carry on the tradition. both men and women just as it used to be ash, deaf on hunger recalls. long to lead a long time ago when little donkeys were also used for fishing to mom, mostly women would ride the appraisal on telephone of us facing the men went to see in boats innovation at an end. this way the women could earn a little extra money for the children, which is also a baby being said with again,

didn't back at the stables, it is time to prepare the catch for processing then it's time to look after the horses. shrimping on horseback has also become a way of preserving rare breeds. there's a switch in the people. they want to re discover tradition. but not everyone. there are still people who want to modernize want to better phones, the better computers, the better, the website, digital, everything. and there's this little population that says, i want to experience the old traditions, how it used to be. and so horseback, shrimping and age old, yet very sustainable and environmentally sound method is undergoing something of a renaissance. thanks in part to the 1st 2 women shrimpers on horseback

in today show we are looking professions and handicrafts that only a few people can last these days. and one of them is the art of making indigo di. it's one of the oldest dies in the world, dating back thousands of years. and in all this time it has lost its distinctive blue color. but with industrial manufacturing, the practice of hand dying cloth with indigo, is dying out. however, one cobble in austria, yours. if amelia, i'm cool. i really giving it there all to keep this tradition a life we met up with them to find out more. ah, here in steinberg austria, they're still making indigo prince by hand. at one time, it was a wide spread craft to day. this is one of the last traditional china blue workshops left in europe. me at that

for all taught we don't approve lou. we die in blue. this wooster with the pattern is printed on the white fabric before the dying using a paste be called bog down to boston. in my book. the recipe is still top secret young to lancaster. yes. it's a secret recipe, right. even i don't know it the greenish paste serves as a kind of inc, parents for various kept tools. some of them are as old as 200 years. this was my if you have to now let it sit and dry thoroughly as we say that it petrified so much for shy and on the petrifying can take 4 to 6 weeks, then the dying can begin. that's yoseph job is a sample. these stone vats are 4 meters deal with we use a vegetable di health and i can die fabrics with the same cold, indigo water mixture, calling for 20 to 25 years. if you got a few of them,

that's how long the mixture keeps its color. stretched on a wooden frame, the fabric is dumped in the bats as often as 10 times and 4 hours, indigo. dying itself is several 1000 years old, dating back to ancient egypt. in the 13th century, indigo was brought to europe by marco polo. it was called magic because the color changes during the dine process, that the mug heap of magic happens during the actual dying of when it changes from a greenish into a blueish color. and for the cloth, the very air turns it blue. the vegetable di reacts with oxygen, then takes quite a long time to finish a piece like this d o a for us. it's not about doing more faster, cheaper. who goes? what about the genuine and authentic? taking up to 8 weeks to make these indigo block prince don't lend themselves to mass production. they demand lots of patience. after several hours in the dying, that's there. rinsed out 1st with hot,

then with cold water. to see if by then you can tell if it turned out well with glut, but not until the fabrics are dry. can you see if it's really something you can use and you're still on windy autumn days, that can take less than an hour? come that says now it goes into the shop it off. we rolled it out and hoped that we can valid coughed. one meter of the hand crafted fabric goes for $37.00 euros. from this point, no limits are set on the imagination. more and more fashion designers are using indigo died fabrics in their collections for shoes and apparel. when we like these fabrics and want to keep the craft alive that is equal to the cooperation with designers and fashion schools. i mean as well as our own developmental are very important to us. we'll be is up. but it's also important is not to forget our routes. in 2018 unesco, declared indigo resist block printing, an intangible world cultural heritage. much took the delight of yoseph and miriam

co looking for more euro max to linton. we've got you covered, had to our youtube channel. here. we know reporters on their adventure. marvel led with you through this and and uniquely turned and have it goes in the cloud in subscribe to dw euro. matt i here in europe. we've been using fans like this one to cool the air for about 600 years. portuguese sailors brought them to europe from asia in the 16th century, and they soon became a status symbol. today, such fans, mostly inexpensive, must produce products,

but in paris there is still one lady who is kept busy crating hand made versions. after all, a fat is not just handing way to keep cool. for many people who like to step out and start, it is also a fashion statement. ah, paris is the city of fashion on hot days. there is one must have accessory, round town. and on the cat walks in the french capital, a van 75 year old and okay, has been making the stylish handheld fans with fabric and high quality materials for over 60 years. as the last traditional folding fan maker in paris, g master's, a craft which is threatened with extinction going someplace, series of toilet tissue. here is a selection of fabrics i used to make. the fans fall in your bucket. i use a stencil to cut the fabric to fit them on to her, yet i own that park. and to prevent it from sliding, we always put newspaper below it to show. and then we put the fabric in

a mold left so that it's easier to fold fulfilled lou pieces with it takes her an hour to make some fans while others take months. in 1960, when she was 14 years old, her father left her no choice. she had to work for her family's business, mythic. i had to drop out of school to become a fan maker. she did bicycle and i wasn't happy about it and i motion with you, but i took a liking to with later what you did when my father passed away, i was set on keeping the tradition alive over time. it became a real passion for me. i particularly love how no 2 rounds are alike, so it never gets glimmering shores. millions have seen this fan on screen. for her motion picture about the former french queen marie antoinette. hollywood film director. sophia coppola had this one of a kind fan made for 3000 euros of yoko sophia coppola

had seen a fancy liked in a magazine, but it wasn't from the period of king louis the 16 franco. so we made a compromise, but we kept the embroidery she and combined entire with an 18th century fan styles in recess. she has also worked for a number of well known fashion labels the former creative director at louis baton, mark jacobs, ported this fan from her for an advertising campaign. funding that you can. it's made of ebony in the embroidery, it's meant to evoke the luxury labels emblem. everything on this piece is sewn with no adhesive views. i typically said to quote mark jacobs really loved fans. why more would the civil tone and okay finally recalls her collaboration with karl

lagerfeld. the german fashion designer was long considered one of the most prominent fans of folding fans shopping. when he contacted me, i didn't yet have any ideas. then we talked and he started sketching. i had some trouble turning it into an actual fan, but that's what it fascinated me. that's what really interested me about working with con, like a fed. it's an o gaze mission to keep the profession alive. from what's in me, i'd like to pass on my expertise so that it doesn't get lost to that's an important cause for me here. but this craft is even considered part of france's intangible cultural heritage. and if it were to disappear, i would see that as a failure, sucks you looper walk. the last fan maker is fighting to preserve a tradition and a piece of cultural heritage that is an integral part of parisian identity.

ah, and finally we had said the bavarian state capital munich, where one company has been an institute in since 1887. that good stuff found. take studios, create mosaics and stained glass for some of the most famous buildings in the world . butts. a great past does not necessarily mean a rosy future. it calls for smart entrepreneurship in 2015 to women, took over the management of the traditional company with great dedication, modern technologies, and a team of experts with very different professions. they are making an old craft fit for the future. working with glass has a long tradition that the gustavo fun perfect studios for glass painting and bavaria. i'm with mit last get to where you need to be patient with glass because

you can't see the end result while you're working at montana. but as soon as you stepped inside a church, for example, and you see the windows in the right setting with the right lighting the glass, surprises you over and over again. my feet on, on the studios have been working with glass for generations and a courtyard in munich since 1887. they've been especially renowned for their stained glass church windows. artist of off i, ella, canine and designer katya, as who kitch took operations over in 2015 from a member of the founding fantastic family. they received global a claim for designing new windows for totally abbey and western germany using motifs by the famous german artist gearhart. richter

for this project, the studios are working with afghan born artist, mac baba, mac sooty, on average, it takes about a month to complete one of the over 9 meter tall windows, which depict scenes from the bible. his info in, instead of a field, every design is drafted on paper or canvas of me. but my fascination for glass dens from the black light has on it would in to see on the sleep. but light is always in motion to view that makes the work very beautiful and exciting on the one hand and very difficult on the other is fun and unders either ox ish, music, mach boob. mock saudi transfers her work to the glass herself. specialists assist her. the team works precisely to the artists specifications, whether cutting the glass panes, maintaining the shapes or coloring the glass. oh churches

world wide are a primary source of the munich based studios commissions. oh . but it's works. can also be found in secular settings as well. such as in a munich subway station. a further specialty of the studios is mosaic. art image is made of tiny colored bits of glass decorate the row of funerary earns and unix western cemetery. yet the hey day of mosaic art lies far in the past. to day requests for works like these are rare ah, was issued as the prime time for mosaics was back in the 19 fifties and 19 sixty's when there was more money budgeted for architectural art. and many facades had mosaic. you can still see that in many towns, but to day that has declined. that may also have to do with the fact that there is a certain amount of competition for materials and so that the architecture is also

different and has a different formed. collaborations with famous designers provides new business opportunities, whether it's woven glass for lamps or as a table with fading color and motifs. the name edition van tech stands for unique everyday objects such as these phases by dean brown from scotland or german designer sebastian hackman side table plus steve the what are the advantages that we have a wide range of customers? in principle, anyone can buy something for their home. we can attract more people that way and experiment with products. and if it's successful, then we'll have a product we can make in series. whether a designer object or a church window, the gustavo fontaine studios display all the facets of ornamental glass

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