八点最热报 l 英国一名男子，为了送80岁父亲一颗独一无二的地球仪，找遍世界各地，却发现市面上贩售的地球仪要嘛是批量塑料制造的、定位不精准，要嘛是开始掉色的古董。因此他突发奇想，决定自己研究怎么样制作高质量的手工地球仪。而他当年一个简单的念头，在16年后的今天，成为了一家拥有20名专才、世上少有的手工地球仪工作坊… （主播：萧慧敏）
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00:00Before watching the video, let me remind you that there is more content on the Hotpot website.
00:04With the development of the Internet, now people want to know about any country on the earth.
00:09As long as you enter the keyword on the Internet,
00:11whether it is the map, history or the local local people,
00:14everything is clear at a glance.
00:16And the globe has slowly faded out of people's sight.
00:20I believe that children now have little contact with it.
00:23Although people's demand for the globe is getting less and less,
00:25there is a handmade globe workshop in the UK.
00:28The business is getting better and better.
00:30A year's globe production is 600.
00:33Even in some Hollywood movie scenes,
00:35you can see the globe made by their family.
00:38And the opportunity to set up this workshop
00:40was because the founder Peter wanted to send his father
00:44a world-unique globe as his 80th birthday gift.
00:49But when he searched the globe all over the world,
00:52he found that the globe on the market
00:54was either made of mass-produced plastic,
00:56with an inaccurate positioning,
00:58or it was an antique that began to fade.
01:00So he decided to research
01:03how to make a high-quality handmade globe.
01:07And his simple idea
01:09became a handmade globe workshop
01:11with 20 professional painters and craftsmen
01:1416 years later.
01:20Apply glue on the globe.
01:22Soak the painted globe in water.
01:25After drying, carefully stick the globe on the globe.
01:27This is how the globe was made.
01:29This handmade globe workshop
01:31is located in London, UK,
01:33one of the world's few handmade globe workshops.
01:35It gathers professional painters and craftsmen
01:37to paint the globe,
01:39cut the globe,
01:40and color it.
01:41This is their daily routine.
01:43The employees said that
01:44because the globe is a sphere,
01:46it is much more difficult to make it
01:48than a normal flat surface work.
01:50The nature of the sphere is extremely challenging.
01:52One, because it's handcrafted itself,
01:54and that creates a few challenges
01:57in sort of warps and undulations on the surface.
02:00And so when you've got lines,
02:02such as the latitudes,
02:04to think about aligning countries and text,
02:07that adds a whole new concept of complexity.
02:11Because making a globe requires
02:13layers and layers of work,
02:15and the information must be accurate and clear,
02:17not a single step can be careless.
02:19When the employees work in the workshop,
02:21they need at least six months of rigorous training.
02:23Not only that,
02:24the studio founder said
02:26that when marking the names,
02:27they also need to be very sharp
02:29to avoid stepping on some of the country's red lines
02:31and causing trouble.
02:33For China, we definitely have to mark
02:36Taiwan as Chinese Taipei
02:38in order for it just to get through customs.
02:41In other territories, in India,
02:43we go to prison for six months
02:45if we don't pick the border between India and Pakistan
02:48as the Delhi government wants us to.
02:51So we have to get things like that right.
02:53Whether it's small and agile,
02:55larger in size,
02:56or a rare oval shape,
02:58each globe in the studio
03:00is exquisite and unique.
03:02Although the Internet is very convenient,
03:04the charm of traveling the world with your fingertips
03:06never fades.
03:08It still attracts a lot of people
03:09to customize globe collections.
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