Now The Factories Have Supplied Some Of These Needs With
an article that is much cheaper, much easier to get, and in many cases good enough for its purpose. With certain tools and domestic apparatus the product of the factory is even......
Country Life
Tile CRAFTSMAN'S PLACE. Some new light on the meaning and philosophy of village cra fts was thrown on my ignorance last week by a succession of talks with some western craftsmen......
A Craftsman Who Excels In The Pride Of The Old
Guild and assesses his work (which is chiefly the making of strong, semi-spherical baskets of withy, oak, or cane) in exact accord with the worth of the material and the sum of......
Beech Mast Oil.
A suggestion reaches me from an observant traveller that among the many native foods that we waste by refusing to use is the oil of the beech nut. In Switzerland, where perhaps......
The Latest Craft To Be Definitely Taken In Hand In
the West is the plaiting of morass grass, a material almost peculiar to Anglesey. This tall tough grass, growing in else uncultivated places, is harvested in good quantity in......
An Obvious Demand For Craftsmen's Work Exists And Will
probably increase among those who buy gifts ; for gifts, at certain times and occasions, are but half-gifts if they are not individual and good of their kind. I wonder whether......
The Most Successful Of Organizers Of Craftsmen In The West
holds tbitt nothing has so hampered success as the humility of the craftsmen. So urban and standardized has our com- munity become that the native rural artist must apologize......
Sheep And Foxes.
A strange story of a fox is told me by the chance observer of the grim incident. A young lamb from a considerable flock strayed rather nearer than the rest to the edge of a......