As with many older crafts, skilled wallers, today, are few in number.
The old traditional crafts are well-preserved in the old part of the city.
But it is striking to see how an old craft has made a master even more sensitive to new ideas.
Others were older craft, kept in barely fnnctional form by their owners.
A blockbuster dropped at the end, after I'd resigned myself to continuing in an old craft.
I was amazed at the speed he was making in the old craft.
This is a district where old crafts are handed down from father to son.
The old craft, he suggested, might have suffered from the high stress.
Similarly, our old crafts are disappearing because they cannot provide a source of income.
Today Otternes serves as a rural museum and a center for the older crafts.