Living Crafts, Historic Tools: The Craftspeople and Collections of the Landis Valley Museum

by Irwin Richman and Michael Emery

What we celebrate today as "crafts" were once the means of everyday manufacture. The craftsman's product was not quaint, archaic, or merely decorative--it 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764342975
• ISBN13: 9780764342974
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
• Length: 160 Pages