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Cræft : an inquiry into the origins and true meaning of traditional crafts / Alexander Langlands.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Langlands, Alex, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Material culture--Europe--History.
- Material culture.
- Artisans--Europe--History.
- Artisans.
- Handicraft industries--Europe--History.
- Handicraft industries.
- Antiquities, Prehistoric--Europe.
- Antiquities, Prehistoric.
- History.
- Europe.
- Antiquities--Europe.
- Local Subjects:
- Artisans--Europe--History.
- Handicraft industries--Europe--History.
- Material culture--Europe--History.
- Antiquities--Europe.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 344 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Other Title:
- Craft : an inquiry into the origins and true meaning of traditional crafts
- Craeft : the origins and meaning of traditional crafts
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2018.
- Summary:
- The Old English word "craeft" signified knowledge, skill, wisdom, and resourcefulness. Today, in the wake of industrialization, people are again seeking products made with authenticity -- artisan breads, local honey, craft beers, furniture and other goods made by human hands. Archaeologist and medieval historian Alexander Landlands travels from his home in Wales along the Atlantic seaboard of Europe learning a wide range of traditional manual skills, and searching for the lost meaning of craeft.
- Contents:
- Defining cræft
- Making hay
- Sticks and stones
- Grenjaðarstaður
- The skep-making beekeeper
- Taming the wilds
- Weft and warp
- Under thatch
- The shoe and the harness
- Seed and sward
- The oxna mere
- Fire and earth
- The craft of digging
- Baskets and boats
- Postscript: Craeft and contemplation.
- Notes:
- First published in 2017 by Faber and Faber Ltd under the title "Cræft : how traditional crafts are about more than just making".
- ISBN:
- 9780393635904
- 0393635902
- OCLC:
- 988281164
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