Traditions are passed down by word of mouth and practised by one generation after the next. They need to be preserved, but they also need to be developed.

For example, basic manual printing techniques, the information medium of the late Middle Ages, have been passed down to us orally in great detail and thus become an artistic expression in their own right.

As handicrafts of old slowly disappear, only a few small workshops are left to teach the old techniques. And yet these are the very techniques that allow for adaption to the individual wishes of customers.

Alongside handicrafts and trades, old forms of hunting are preserved – the art of using birds to hunt, for example. The “silent hunts” of contemporary falconry are considered a natural situation between the bird and its prey.