Cheap and Nasty-a phrase by Carlyle
The "soulless" machine. -unknown
“Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.” Ruskin
The heritage of the Arts and Crafts movement was a desire to do well the craft. Whatever they were designing or making, do it well, do it better, do it to last. It was a return of the craftsmen and a desire to celebrate true luster of beauty. The result was eventually all benefited from its ideals as goods were better made. The standard was raised and was demanded. We are still demanding.
One more sample:
Samples of Edward Johnston's calligraphy. This shows how meticulous the work is for the calligrapher and the pride of it. "Demonstration sheet by by Edward Johnston, '56 a's made as wrongly as possible', 1931. Two pages on paper, written in a massive foundational hand in blue-black ink. Annotations are written in an italic hand in red ink. This page shows 24 a's."
"In a tribute to her father given at the Art Workers' Guild in 1945, Bridget Johnston mentioned how "few .. were more acutely aware than he of how the order in which a thing was done affects the thing itself. He calculated that there were no less than 56 different ways in which the ordinary Small-letter a could be made, according to the order in which the strokes were written, only one of them being the correct way"."
http://archiveshub.ac.uk/features/ditchlingcraftcommunity/edwardjohnston-demonstrationsheet.html
http://archiveshub.ac.uk/features/ditchlingcraftcommunity/edwardjohnston-teachingsheet.html
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