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The Morality of Craft

Fiona MacCarthy discusses one of the Arts and Crafts Movement's core beliefs - that hand-making had a higher moral value than machine production.

Fiona MacCarthy discusses one of the core beliefs of the Arts and Crafts Movement - that hand-making had a higher moral worth than machine production.

She focuses on one of the most ambitious members of the movement, CR Ashbee, who in 1902 persuaded members of his East End of London Guild of Handicraft to resettle their families in Chipping Campden in the Cotswolds.

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Mon 2 Feb 2009 23:00

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