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ISBN: 9781903998427
Year Added to Catalog: 2005
Book Format: Hardcover
Book Art: full color photographs
Number of Pages: 8 1/2 x 11, 192 pages
Book Publisher: Green Books
Old ISBN: 1903998425
Release Date: January 20, 2005

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Table of Contents

Editor's Note
Foreword
Introduction

Part 1: World of Craft

Creative Moments
glassblowing, Philip Baldwin

Art Elevated, Craft Degenerated
fragmentation, John Lane

Wonder of Work
overview, John Seymour

Inuit Solutions
design, Victor Papanek

The New Alchemists
recycling, Anna Champeney

Kingdom of Beauty
pottery, Breon O'Casey

Contemporary Concerns
craft today, Tanya Harrod


Part 2: Ways of Living

Shoji Hamada
pottery, Edward Hughes

Clive Bowern
pottery, Geraldine Norman

Richard Batterham
pottery, David Whiting

Making in the City
pottery, Edmund de Waal

John Makepeace
furiniture making, Sarah Hudston

David Drew
basket making, Richard Boston

Kazuo Hiroshima
basket making, Louise Allison Cort


Part 3: Culture of Community

Amish Thread
quilting, Robert Hughes

A Tale of Tapestry
weaving, Clio Mithell

Living Traditions
tribal art, Satish Kumar interviews Haku Shah

All Hands to Work
local economy, Satish Kumar

Made to Measure
leather work, Roger Deakin

Willow Workers
basket making, Oliver Lowenstein

Way of the Cook
cooking, Julia Ponsonby


Part 4: Caring for Nature

Treading Lightly
environment, Alexander Murdin

Guy Martin
furniture, Sandy Brown

Living Structures
willow work, Jon Warnes

Growing with Gratitude
gardening, Brigitte Norland

Building Like Gardening
architecture, Brian Richardson

Earth Sculptors
cob, Lorna Howarth

Made of Mud
cob, Ianto Evans

Saving the Swill
basket making, Mary Barratt

Tino Bawnsley
bodging, Peter Runyard

Buildings Like Trees
architecture, William McDonough interviews Tim Stead


Part 5: Enduring Skills

Poetry of Practice
writing, John Moat

Roman Letters
lithography, Ken Sprague

Life of Books
book binding, Maureen Duke

Bill Phipps
silversmithing, Margot Coatts

Gwen Heeney
ceramics, Sandy Brown

Breon O'Casey
handskills, Kitty Corrigan

Marta Donaghey
jewellery, Sandy Brown

The Harmony in Hand Tools
woodwork, John Brown

With the Grain
woodwork, Barrie Thompson

On the Mend
repairing, Roger Scruton


Part 6: Seekers of Meaning

Continual Renewal
craft traditions, Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay

Keith Critchlow
architecture, Satish Kumar interview

Bobbie Cox
weaving, Satish Kumar interview

Kaffe Fasset
knittting, Sue Lawley interview

Spontaneous Potting
ceramics, Sandy Brown

Spirit in the Woods
cabinet making, David Charlesworth

Tobias Kaye
woodwork, Satish Kumar interview

Let the Ingredients Sing
cooking, Ed Brown

Wabi Sabi
aesthetics, Leonard Koren

Details of Craftspeople and Contributors
Acknowledgements
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