Arts and Crafts Essays: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Arts and Crafts Essays, credited to Various Authors, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Arts and Crafts Essays by Various Authors. Read LibriVox Volunteers A series of essays by Members of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society with a preface by William Morris who writes "It is this conscious cultivation of art and the attempt to interest the public in it which the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society has set itself to help, by calling special attention to that really most important side of art, the decoration of utilities by furnishing them with genuine artistic finish in place of trade finish." The Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society was formed in London in 1887 to promote the exhibition of decorative arts alongside fine arts. - Summary by J. M. Smallheer

Recording facts

• Recording title: Arts and Crafts Essays
• Author credits: Various Authors
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 36
• Listed recording duration: 6:53:51

Catalogue topics

• art
• crafts
• handcrafts

Opening tracks: first 24 of 36

1. 00 - Preface — 8:45
2. 01 - On the Revival of Design and handicraft: with Notes on the Work fo the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society — 20:51
3. 02 - Textiles — 17:23
4. 03 - Of Decorative Painting and Design — 15:08
5. 04 - Of Wall Papers — 9:06
6. 05 - Fictiles — 5:36
7. 06 - Metal Work — 14:16
8. 07 - Stone and Wood Carving — 8:58
9. 08 - Furniture — 8:10
10. 09 - Stained Glass — 8:05
11. 10 - Table Glass — 4:15
12. 11 - Printing — 22:22
13. 12 - Bookbinding — 14:54
14. 13 - Of Mural Painting — 9:24
15. 14 - Of Sgraffito Work — 11:33
16. 15 - Of Stucco and Gesso — 11:19
17. 16 - Of Cast Iron — 12:52
18. 17 - Of Dyeing as an Art — 14:00
19. 18 - Of Embroidery — 10:25
20. 19 - Of Lace — 13:18
21. Of Book Illustration and Book Decoration — 11:57
22. 21 - Of Designs and Working Drawings — 13:11
23. 22 - Furniture and the Room — 15:04
24. 23 - Of the Room and Furniture — 14:03

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