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STORY: Meet the craftspeople preserving traditions around the world

1 // Indigenous Mapuche women weaved a 1,093-yard-long rainbow

in an attempt to break a world record

Location: Puerto Saavedra, Chile

[Daniela Ancao, Mapuche weaver]

"We are very happy to be here. To be able to be part of this, that our culture can go on in time along with the loom. It has been maintained through the decades by our grandmothers and ancestors."

2 // This Georgian baker doubles as an acrobat

to make the Kakheti shoti bread

a canoe-shaped loaf baked inside a special cylindrical oven

Location: Tbilisi, Georgia

3 // 80-year-old Shamsa Bilal carries on the craft of silk-dyeing

and is imparting her knowledge to the younger generations

Location: Damascus, Syria

She is also trying to dispel the notion

that this craft causes one to lose their teeth

[Shamsa Bilal, Artisan]

“My daughters heard that your teeth can fall out because of the profession, even though my mother and aunt passed away without losing a single tooth. But now these young women are afraid to lose their teeth. All the elderly women who used to do this profession have since died, I’m the only one left.”