As opposing to the now lost trades and crafts that we discussed
under the oral history heading, now, the testimonies about
crafts and traditional industry of today are gathered here. As
Antxon Aguirre Sorondo defines it, a craftsman is "who creates
popular art, although from the anthropological perspective it
would be more exact to define craftsman as the worker who is
skillful with his hands and whose tools take second place to his
man´s own ability and imagination". This idea based on the
ability and ingenuity is completed with a factor that is clearly
distinctive. Craftsmen make unique and non-standardarized
utensils. From the point of view of different administrations,
craftsmanship has been equaled to small traditional
manufacturing industry including "homemade" food products ( to
be more exact, traditionally elaborated products) that other
more strict definitions exclude. Inspite of government support,
the future and vitality of craftsmanship are quite uncertain,
due to the lack of rising generations pl