Editorial
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A 1932 editorial from The Handicrafter on how tools and working materials affect the artistry of handcrafts. It draws examples from pre-Incan Peruvian textiles, Navajo Bayeta blankets, Florentine woolens, the Gobelin tapestry works, and Rodier's fabrics, as well as metalwork, porcelain, ivory and glass. It argues that craftsmen should adopt improved tools and scientific methods rather than revert to primitive ones. Photographs show hand spinning in Greece and Egypt, Navajo rug weaving in Arizona, and cloth weaving in a Czechoslovakian home.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- January-February 1932
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 3
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