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  • A family owned wineskin workshop in Pamplona, Spain. This old bota (wineskin) workshop called Botería San Fermin is operated by three brothers-Pedro, Victor, and Juan José Echarrí-the third generation of this family business. Their grandfather started the business 115 years ago. They've been in the present building 30 years and started learning the workmanship involved when they were young children. Originally the botería was in their home. They had three floors for living and one for the workshop. Victor is pictured. Process: They turn the stitched hide inside out, beat it on a machine to soften it (they used to have to do this by hand by beating it on a rock) and then put tar on the inside goat fur.  Navarro, Spain.
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  • Lao Textile Natural Dye shop and workshop in Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • The potter's workshop of Armando Torrado, in Navarette, La Rioja, Spain.
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  • Inventor and Macarthur foundation winner Ralph Hotchkiss in his Oakland, California, workshop designing wheelchairs. Hotchkiss is himself confined to a wheelchair. MODEL RELEASED. USA.
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  • MEX_114_xs.Painter of flat dinner plates in a workshop in Tonala, Mexico..
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  • The potter's workshop of Armando Torrado, in Navarette, La Rioja, Spain.
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  • Coopers making wine barrels at Bodegas Muga in Haro, Rioja, Spain.
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  • Toeleria Victoria, wine barrel factory in Haro, Rioja, Spain.
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  • Woodcarvers, Mysore, South India.
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  • A worker paints plastic chickens at Harry Fujita's plastic food factory in Torrance, California. Iwasaki Images of America.
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  • Toshiko Taira, 87, of Kijoka, Okinawa, Japan. Many Okinawans used to work into their nineties, farming, and weaving bashofu, a fine fabric made from a local banana fiber. Bashofu weaving was a home-based craft, and highly valued, but there are few, if any, weavers producing the fabric at home anymore. The workshop of Toshiko Taira, 87, and her daughter, in the northern Okinawa village of Kijoka, is virtually all that is left of the art. She has been named a national treasure of Japan. She and her daughter are attempting to keep the fine practice alive. Although older generations of Okinawans are still living into their one-hundredth year, some say that the decline of weaving in the home was the beginning of the decline of the lengthy life spans of Okinawans.
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  • Ali Ghoyumi, 76 year old weaver working in a cave workshop in Na'in, Iran. He can trace his family back many generations he says, and his family have all been weavers. He is the last of his family that still weaves, as the pay is low.
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  • Lao Textile Natural Dye shop and workshop in Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Lao Textile Natural Dye shop and workshop in Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • The patio restaurant of a hotel in downtown Quito, Equador.  Photography workshop for South American photojournalists taught by USA professional photographers and editors.
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  • A 76-year-old weaver works in a cave workshop in Na'in, Iran, making a camel hair cloak for a cleric. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Art restorer Vyacheslav ?Slava? Grankovskiy in his studio workshop behind his home in Shlisselburg, near St. Petersburg, Russia, with his typical day's worth of food. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  The caloric value of his day's worth of food in the month of October was 3900 kcals. He is 53 years of age; 6 feet, 2 inches tall; and 184 pounds. The son of a Soviet-era collective farm leader, he was raised near the Black Sea and originally worked as an artist and engineer. Over the years, he's learned a few dozen crafts, which eventually enabled him to restore a vast number of objects, build his own house, and be his own boss. His travel adventures have included crossing the Karakum Desert in Turkmenistan, where he spent time with a blind hermit and dined with a Mongol woman who hunted bears and treated him to groundhog soup. His favorite drink: Cognac. Does he ever drink soda? ?No, I use cola in restoration to remove rust, not to drink,? he says. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Deep in the basement of the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute, Omead Amidi adjusts the wing of the robot helicopter he is designing with Takeo Kanade, a Carnegie Mellon researcher who specializes in robotic vision. Several smaller versions of the project sit in his workshop. Pittsburgh, PA. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 160-161.
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  • Bob Goodman, a rancher in Halfway, Oregon, lost his arm in a freak accident. Researchers at the University of Utah gave him a myoelectric arm, which he controls by flexing the muscles in his arm that are still intact. Sensors on the inside of the prosthetic arm socket pick up the faint electrical signals from the muscles and amplify them to control the robot arm. In this way, Goodman can do most things as he did before his accident. Here he is using a drill press in the workshop in his barn.
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  • Many Okinawans used to work into their nineties, farming, and weaving bashofu, a fine fabric made from a local banana fiber. Bashofu weaving was a home-based craft, and highly valued, but there are few, if any, weavers producing the fabric at home anymore. The workshop of Toshiko Taira, 87, at left, with a young apprentice, in the northern Okinawa village of Kijoka, is virtually all that is left of the art. She has been designated a national treasure of Japan. She and her daughter are attempting to keep the fine practice alive. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • Bjorn Thoroddson of the Thoroddson family, standing next to a private airplane he is building in his home workshop in Hafnarfjordur near Reykjavik, Iceland. The Thoroddsons were originally photographed in 1993 for the book Material World, but are seen here in 2004 on a revisit. MODEL RELEASED..
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  • Bjorn Thoroddson, father of the Thoroddson family, originally photographed in 1993 for the book Material World.  Bjorn is seen here in his home garage workshop with parts of an airplane wing he is building. Hafnarfjordur, near Reykjavik, Iceland, 2004. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Flanked by the animatronic robots created in his workshops, Steve Jacobsen, an engineering professor at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, may be the world's most entrepreneurial roboticist-he's spun off four companies from his research and discoveries. Perhaps the most important product he makes is the Utah Artificial Arm (above Jacobsen's head), a high-tech prosthetic hand used by thousands of amputees around the world. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 216-217.
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