
Living Crafts, Historic Tools
The Craftspeople and Collections of the Landis Valley Museum
Michael Emery(Author)
Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Published on 28. April 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-0-7643-4297-4 (ISBN)
Description
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 Village & Farm Museum, the leading public attraction devoted to Pennsylvania German ("Pennsylvania Dutch") culture, works to preserve and carry the art of handcrafts into the modern age by educating and delighting visitors with their vast collection and craftwork demonstrators often in authentic dress, using period tools. With this book, the museum celebrates the hand tool as a medium of expression and salutes those who wield it with skillful pride. Through hundreds of images of these elegantly purposeful hand tools, the history of American handcraft is traced-sure to delight the luddite at heart.
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Edition
UK edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Atglen
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
592 images
Dimensions
Height: 279 mm
Width: 216 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
517 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7643-4297-4 (9780764342974)
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Michael Emery is a Landis Valley Village & Farm Museum Educator and Volunteer Coordinator. An expert on the Pennsylvania Germans, he has an avid interest in books, paper, and photographic memorabilia. Irwin Richman, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of The Pennsylvania State University, and a Research Associate with the Landis Valley Village & Farm Museum. He is a widely known lecturer and the author of 21 books.