Traditional Handicrafts in Tirol

He likes bends, preferably with 25 degrees to the outside. The faster he is on the toboggan run, the slower and more careful he is in his workshop: the toboggan builder.

You can never really tell who is under a mask. At least almost never. We have uncovered one person who may not be underneath many masks, but is behind them: the mask carver.

The carver is also available in small format, usually as an interior decorator for the nativity scene. It takes him a whole day to mould a 10 cm small figure out of wood: The figure carver.

Anyone who has been making the same shoe for four generations and still made it onto the catwalk can't be a doggl. Quite the opposite! He prefers to produce them: the doggl maker.

We don't like to publicise things - there are already more than enough of them in Tyrol. Hardly any other family is as representative of an entire craft as the Grassmayrs: the bell founders.

Here you can look deep into the glass! Or rather into the glass furnace. After all, it takes around 1,200 degrees Celsius for something to take shape here: the glassblower.

While we're still fine-tuning our puns, at least one person knows where the hammer hangs: the blacksmith.

Skis made of wood - where you might think of old hut decorations, customised skis are made in Innsbruck: the ski makers.