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Hey guys! This is Norm
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He's been in a couple of my videos now, I think only on my second channel though
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So maybe some of you don't know him
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He's my good friend from Canada
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We never met in Canada though
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Go to my second channel for the story of how we met
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Today we are going to "Arakawa Traditional Crafts Fair"
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It's a traditional craft fair
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Where they're selling lots of traditional Japanese crafts
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Apparently all the proceeds go to helping rebuilding of Northern Japan
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So yeah, that's pretty awesome
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So we're going to go there, hope they have some cool stuff to show you guys!
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That's really cool! I've never seen anyone make one
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That looks so complicated!
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That will turn into this when she's all finished!
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Unfortunately this person is on lunch break
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You can see they were stencilling patterns onto this cloth
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and it looks like they were making "noren" - curtains
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Pretty~ We'll have to come back when they are here so we can watch them
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Hammering metal fans
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There's someone making tatami here
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They've got samples
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I didn't realize there were so many different colours of tatami
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I thought it was just a standard green
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Whoa black! That's cool
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They have multi-coloured! Striped if you will
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That's awesome
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You see this tiny little blue thing along the edge?
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That has to be hand placed along the entire thing
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I can see that taking a while
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Oh yeah! It's got R2D2
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Oh my god, I did not notice that!
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He was just explaining that these designs over here
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are originally from 100 years ago
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and they get passed down to the new technicians
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So they can keep up the traditional designs
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But these ones over here, are some newer designs
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Everything is carved out by hand
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Oh wow! At this station they're making hair pieces
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Traditional hair accessories
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These are so pretty!
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They can get really detailed
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Norm's gonna serenade us
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Building a shamisen
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Hello~
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I want all of them!
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I like that blue one
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It would be cool to have a set of all different ones
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Norm also made a mini-series about our day together
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If you guys wanna see those videos, I will link the playlist down below!
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They're unlisted, but if you go through the playlist you're able to see them :)
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Thanks for watching! And I will see you soon, bye!