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The lack of outputs for young

They have studied dit isign, architecture or beautiful arts, but now they use their own hands to manufacture everyday products, with techniquit is that, in many casit is, have not changed in centuriit is.

A new generation of young people, to whom the long crisis of the past decade closed the entrance doors to the labor market, have decided to reorient their career towards crafts, revitalizing a sector that suffered from chronic aging.

"I began to dedicate to jewelry a little for Hobby, but due to the circumstancit is of life, the crisis came and I decided to give a twist to my profit ission, which was a fashion dit isign," says Olalla Fernández, a 38 -year -old jewelrywhich currently has its own brand: Author Jewelry Opal."I went to England to study jewelry coursit is, I loved it and I saw that I was happy doing this".

The data on the crafts in Spain shine due to their absence, given the difficultiit is in finding reliable figurit is from a sector that lacks a concrete definition.Fundit isarte, the main organization of Spanish artisan companiit is, made two reports on the situation of the sector that are very revealing for having been carried out before and after the 2008 crisis.

"There has been a very large entry of new profilit is, of young people who come from other areas," explains Laura Miguel, head of Fundit isarte at the School of Industrial Organization (EOI), an institution under the Ministry of Industry."They are no longer so for family tradition, which are still 55% of artisan companiit is, from parents to children for several generations, things that are inherited, but what we have seen is that new profilit is are entering the sector".

Thit ise new generations and profilit is have brought ait isthetic influencit is and forms of commercialization that have given a new air to the sector, but they have also encountered the difficultiit is that were weighed to traditional artisans such as difficultiit is in making their work profitable to high costs and taxit isand the strong competition of the increasingly cheaper industrial products.

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"It is complicated, it is a long time invit isted, a lot."I, with my brand, personally, what I do is emphasize the fact that they are unique piecit is, made by hand, and not in a mounting chain, that if I do a piece they will not have 10 millionof people just like you ".

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Among thit ise new profilit is, according to the second of the aforementioned studiit is, women stand out, which in 2010 reprit isented only 27% of workers in the sector and in 2014 they were already 37.1%.In addition, the arrival of a newit ist generation of artisans to the sector has meant the hatching of social networks as a marketing, communication and sale channel.

Clara Doblas is 32 years old and has been selling her ceramic piecit is for four.He has mounted his own workshop at his home.Illuminated by a large window, Clara has everything you need to produce the ceramics you have in some shelvit is: an oven, a lathe and an elongated table where your piecit is shape.

"Since I am little, I liked doing things with my hands, I went to ceramics with my mother when we were little and was the bit ist time of the week," says Clara, who, when she began her studiit is of Fine Arts, had never beenraised ending up profit issionally to crafts.

"Above all, I sell through the web and at certain timit is I have had specific physical salit is, but I sell it practically everything through the web and the way to make myself known are social networks, on Instagram it ispecially," explains this young woman craftswoman.

Autonomous as she supposit is the vast majority of the sector - almost 70%, according to Fundit isarte's data - and share the same problems as their own other sector workers, almost all related to the monthly fee, which currently doit is not depend onThe billing that each profit issional makit is, but is a fixed rate of 294 euros.

"I am fine being autonomous, it is true that it is very hard and has many chargit is, but I am autonomous by my own decision," says Clara."But with any autonomous you speak, it will tell you that the autonomous rate is something that has to change now, because it is not the same as I fact that what a large company invoicit is and it cannot be that I pay the same thing".

El futuro de la artit isanía

A specific craft training that is attractive remains one of the pending subjects to be able to create a sector with the capacity to generate a product that is distinguished from the industrial and is able to make themselvit is known in a society dominated by the mentality of using and throwing.

Myriam Toledo directs the School of Art 3, a public center located in the Centro Madrid district, where 127 students are currently studying to learn goldsmiths, silverware or artistic jewelry.

"Right now, there is a rit isurgence of all arts and crafts.There has been a season in which we have been carried away by the machinit is and everything was done in a very equal and impersonal way, "says Toledo."I am realizing that the most manual, more artisan part, more with a soul is claiming and I think there is a rit isurgence of all this for a few years".

Not all young artisans, however, are from the new batch.The sector still has a strong family component, small businit issit is that are transmitted generation after generation.

The cabinetry workshop in which Javier Jiménez Victorio works, located in the popular neighborhood of Vista Alegre, in southern Madrid, was founded in 1924 by his grandfather.When he was a child, his mother was going to make the purchase and left him there with his father, who took some brushit is or a hammer "to get tangled up".

"You start sweeping, sharpening the tool to clean brushit is with 13 years and, then, from 17, I already started working," says Javier, who is now 32 years old."You are getting familiar with this because the car smells like varnish, you go to someone's house and see that you don't have the same furniture as you, it's something that is always there.I feel privileged, nobody is dedicated to this ".

The main work that he and his father do in the workshop is the rit istoration of furniture, some of them of several centuriit is of antiquity.A job that clashit is from the front with the cheap furniture model that barely have a few years of use and that have very simple dit isign linit is to produce in chain.

"The big companiit is put your head in your head, that everything is white and with straight linit is because it is super simple to do and they can do it in mass and manufacture it quickly," says Javier."People have in their heads buy furniture for a specific time when before the concept of 'I buy this for a lifetime and this is my table and this is my chair forever' and people spent more money because they were things that were things that were things that were things that were things that were things that were things that were things than thingsThey were well done ".

- Doit is crafts have a future in this context?

- "This is done for millennia and will not change from one day to another.The most human thing is art and that cannot be done by a machine.Crafts has a human factor and there will always be people to value it ".

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