The Essay - From Pens to Ploughshares
Series on the Arts and Crafts Movement, which aimed to achieve a more balanced and democratic combination of creative work and leisure, making beautiful objects to supply basic human needs
The Essay - From Pens to Ploughshares - Back to the City
Edmund de Waal considers two European emigre potters, Hans Coper and Lucie Rie, who, in contrast with their rural-based English contemporaries, successfully worked in the city.
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The Essay - From Pens to Ploughshares - God Made the Countryside
Alan Crawford ponders his time spent as a monk, and his admiration for Godfrey Blount and Maude King, writers and craftspeople who singled out the countryside as a God-given realm.
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The Essay - From Pens to Ploughshares - Michael Cardew in Africa
Tanya Harrod explains how the Arts and Crafts Movement transplanted itself to Africa, focusing on the story of potter Michael Cardew who moved to the African Gold Coast.
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The Essay - From Pens to Ploughshares - 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.
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The Essay - From Pens to Ploughshares - The Politics of Craft
Arts and Crafts expert Fiona MacCarthy discusses the life of Edward Carpenter, who opted for a life of self-sufficiency and supported himself by making shoes.
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