Anne-apolis

Today I was doing a bit of tidying and noticed a quote by JD Sedding that my mom had crafted into a cross-stitch sampler which I have made up into a cushion cover. Sedding was a Victorian architect who was one of the founders of the Arts and Crafts movement in the UK in the late 1800s. The Arts and Crafts artists were reacting to the excessive ornamentation that characterised many of the artefacts that were produced in the early industrial era. In particular, they criticised ornament that did not derive from the function of the object, its method of manufacture or the materials that it was made from. This was possibly the first movement that purposefully aimed at authenticity, even to the extent of encouraging designers to engage in the manufacture of their products.  Today, hand-made objects are often unaffordable, unless one is lucky enough to have one passed down or find a treasure in a thrift shop. In some parts of the less industrialised world, craftspeople are still very much...