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The traditional trades focus on preservation of the knowledge of craft work specific to historic building technologies and traditional/non-traditional building materials. Traditional building materials and traditional trade technologies are commonly associated with a host of materials, but not limited to, stone, brick, [[terra cotta]], [[adobe]], cork, leather, timber and log, bamboo, thatch, [[slate]] and metal roofing, fine and vernacular carpentry, ornamental [[plaster]] ([[scagliola]]), [[stained glass]], window and door restoration, wood refinishing, painting, [[cast iron]] and [[wrought iron]]. In what may at times be considered non-traditional materials are found trades such as chandelier and lighting restoration where you have to be somewhat of a jack-of-all-trades with an understanding of electricity, and knowledgeable with properties and finishes of metals, glass, and optics. As an example of the mix of new and old materials, the art of restoration of mobile residential trailers requires a number of traditional trade skills associated with traditional and contemporary materials in a manner not dissimilar to those hand-work skills and preservation approaches required to restore an historic automobile, a bi-planebiplane, rocket ship or steam locomotive.