Living Crafts, Historic Tools: The Craftspeople and Collections of the Landis Valley Museum - Michael Emery - Books - Schiffer Publishing Ltd - 9780764342974 - April 28, 2013
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Michael Emery
Living Crafts, Historic Tools: The Craftspeople and Collections of the Landis Valley Museum

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What we celebrate today as crafts were once the means of everyday manufacture. The craftsman's product was not quaint, archaic, or merely decorativeit was essential. The tools that created these necessities speak to the early American spirit of ingenuity. Simple but resourceful, each tool was a beautiful, clever marriage of form and function, endowed with a life of its own, uniquely forged and perfectly suited for its purpose. The Landis Valley Village & Farm Museum, the leading public attraction devoted to Pennsylvania German ("Pennsylvania Dutch") culture, works to preserve and carry the art of handcrafts into the modern age by educating and delighting visitors with their vast collection and craftwork demonstrators often in authentic dress, using period tools. With this book, the museum celebrates the hand tool as a medium of expression and salutes those who wield it with skillful pride. Through hundreds of images of these elegantly purposeful hand tools, the history of American handcraft is tracedsure to delight the luddite at heart.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released April 28, 2013
ISBN13 9780764342974
Publishers Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Pages 160
Dimensions 216 × 278 × 14 mm   ·   853 g
Language English  

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