traditional skills
Old-world methods passed
Traditional skills are practical abilities and techniques passed down through generations, typically learned through hands-on practice rather than formal education.
These include crafts like woodworking, weaving, blacksmithing, and pottery, as well as subsistence practices like farming, fishing, and food preservation.
The term often appears in discussions of cultural heritage and sustainability, where there's concern that such knowledge is being lost to industrialization and technology.
She learned traditional skills like canning and quilting from her grandmother.
- leatherworkingCrafting with animal hides
- hide tanningConverting raw skins to leather
- basketryArt of weaving containers
- basket weavingCreating woven containers
- woodworkingCraft of shaping lumber
pottery · blacksmithing · storytelling · stone carving · seed saving · fire-making · tracking · thatching · foraging · mask-making · calligraphy · knitting · glassblowing · coopering · rope making · cheese making · candle making · embroidery
- cultural heritagefolklore, traditions, customs, folk music revival, museum collections
- folk traditionsfolk songs, folk dance, folk dances, folk tunes, folklore
- simple livingsimple living, frugality, minimalism, decluttering, back-to-the-land
traditional skillsmodern innovations
Novel developments of today
digital skills · coding · digital literacy · programming · automation
traditional skillsformal education
Systematic study in institutions
online learning · e-learning · classroom instruction · YouTube tutorials
traditional skillstransferable skills
Competencies applicable across fields