Wooden Boat Shop 19 February: A Thousand Hands Ago

by Mark McGlothlin on February 19, 2016

in Boats

A Thousand Hands Ago from S Ensby on Vimeo.

A short film about of recalling the knowledge of long dead craftsmen.

Over the course of three days, Danish kayak builder Anders Thygesen builds an Aleutian iqyax by the shore of his local lake. He reflects on the process of learning these skills from masters whom he has never met.