COUNTRY LIFE ,
Revived Crafts
The Oxford Rural Community Council, which is fondly known as the Ore, deserves among birds of such feather the title of the Great Ore. It has done much fine pioneer work in the past. Its latest success is in apostolic succession and gives new promise of a development devoutly to be . wished. Last year it formed a Guild of Oxford Craftsmen, on the lines of the Blacksmiths' Guilds formed in Hampshire and other counties ; but further steps were taken. The Guild was proudly registered as the Oxfordshire Rural Industries Co-operative Society ; and under this rather burdensome name, very active work in both manufacture • (a word we mendaciously apply to factory work) and in sale was organized. A permanent showroom is engaged (at Boswell's in Oxford) where the work of the craftsman may be seen by the public, and a very persuasive little folder is published in which the work of the various crafts is illustrated and named. The craftsmen include workers in wrought iron, in sheet iron, in wood, in osier and wattle and in stone.
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