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Arts and Crafts movement

Categories: Craft / Design

This design and construction movement began in Britain around 1880 and quickly spread across America and Europe. Taking its name from the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society, it stood for traditional craftsmanship using simple forms of decoration, and advocated economic and social reform. William Morris was one of its main influences.

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Arts and Crafts movement

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Sir Arthur Mackmurdo

Arthur H. Mackmurdo, architect, 1851 - 1942, a pioneer and founder of the Art...

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Ruchita Shaikh

Ruchita Shaikh

Mosaic/ceramic artist, active c. 2005.

Person, Craft / Design

1 memorial
John Cusworth

John Cusworth

British History On-line credits Cusworth with the Newby Place monument.   Mapping Sculpture provides some information. The stone masons John Cusworth & Sons was active 1825-79, at least two ge...

Person, Commerce, Craft / Design

1 memorial
Pamela Colman Smith

Pamela Colman Smith

A British-American occultist, artist, illustrator, writer and storyteller. Most famous for the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot, first published 1910, she created the standard classic deck of the English-sp...

Person, Art, Craft / Design, Gender Issues, Literature, Paranormal, Jamaica, USA

1 memorial
Thomas Chippendale, senior

Thomas Chippendale, senior

Cabinet maker. Born Otley, Yorkshire. The picture shows the statue at his birthplace. His first 30 years are undocumented. His 1754 publication "The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director" has been...

Person, Craft / Design

1 memorial
Spitalfields weaving industry

Spitalfields weaving industry

Many of the Huguenots that arrived here in the 16th and 17th centuries were skilled silk weavers and set up looms in their homes in Spitalfields. The Spitalfields textile trade thrived until the mi...

Concept, Commerce, Craft / Design

2 memorials