"You must learn an ancient skill that requires commitment, instruction and practice."
Making and repairing gondolas involves ancient skills practiced by ever fewer people.
She summed these and reported: This is an ancient skill.
At the sculpture workshop, you can see native peoples still practicing the ancient skills but with modern tools.
What if, at this late stage, the complex engines of the younger designers should prove too complex for my ancient skills?
Therefore, he reached back into ancient skills once learned as play and adapted them to an alien environment.
Building is one of the most ancient human skills.
And where, most horribly, the Bushmen turned their ancient skills upon themselves.
With ancient skill he blew upon his whistle, and the geese were tempted.
This is an opportunity to blend tradition and the modern rediscovery of ancient skills.