The
Home Arts and Industries Association was an organisation that functioned as a precursor to the
Art Workers Guild in the development of the
Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain. It was founded in
1884 by
Eglantyne Louisa Jebb who was inspired by an initiative of
Charles Godfrey Leland in Philadelphia. Another leading member was the designer
Mary Fraser Tytler. The organisation sought to revive traditional rural crafts which were threatened by the mechanisation of production and by increasing urbanization. In conformity with the thinking of
John Ruskin and with Arts and Crafts philosophy, supporters believed that flourishing traditional crafts helped sustain rural communities and provided workers with far more personal satisfaction than was possible for factory workers. The Association funded schools and organised marketing opportunities for craftspeople.
The Art Workers Guild is an organization established in 1884 by a group of young architects associated with the ideas of William Morris and the Arts and Crafts movement. The guild promoted the 'unity of all the arts', denying the distinction between fine and applied art.
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Arts and Crafts movement was a British and American aesthetic movement occurring in the last years of the 19th century and the early years of the 20th century. Inspired by the writings of John Ruskin and a romantic idealization of the craftsman taking pride in his personal
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1850s 1860s 1870s - 1880s - 1890s 1900s 1910s
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Eglantyne Louisa Jebb (1845-1925) was a socal reformer. Born in Killiney, Ireland, she married her cousin Arthur Trevor Jebb (1839-1894), a barrister and landowner from Ellesmere, Shropshire. Her brother was the classicist Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb.
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Charles Godfrey Leland (August 15 1824 – March 20 1903) was an American humorist and folklorist, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and educated at Princeton University, and in Europe.
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Mary Seton Fraser-Tytler (married name Mary Seton Watts) (1849 – 1938) was a symbolist craftswoman, designer and social reformer. She was born in India, the daughter of Charles Edward Fraser-Tytler of Balnain and Aldourie, but spent much of her youth in Scotland and
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John Ruskin (February 8, 1819 – January 20, 1900) is best known for his work as an art critic and social critic, but is remembered as an author, poet and artist as well.
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