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Why Traditional Craft Knowledge Can't Be Fully Learned from Books

I taught myself traditional tanning methods from books but the hides keep failing and I realize there's something missing that only comes from learning person to person

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Traditional crafts contain tacit knowledge that requires embodied transmission and cannot be captured in written instructions.

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