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The British Council is a charity governed by Royal Charter. It is also a public corporation and an executive nondepartmental public body (NDPB), sponsored by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. Its headquarters are in Stratford, London. Its chair is Paul Thompson, and its CEO is Scott McDonald .
American craft is craft work produced by independent studio artists working with traditional craft materials and processes. Examples include wood ( woodworking and furniture making ), glass ( glassblowing and lampworking ), clay ( ceramics ), textiles, and metal ( metalworking ). Studio craft works tend to either serve or allude to a functional ...
The Guild and School of Handicraft was established in 1888 in London, later moving to Chipping Campden in Gloucestershire, England, as a community of artists and craftspeople by the arts and crafts architect Charles Robert Ashbee (1863-1942). [1] According to Historic England it "became one of the foremost Arts and Crafts workshops of its ...
The Arts and Crafts movement was an international trend in the decorative and fine arts that developed earliest and most fully in the British Isles [1] and subsequently spread across the British Empire and to the rest of Europe and America. [2] Initiated in reaction against the perceived impoverishment of the decorative arts and the conditions ...
1986 (aged 88–89) [2] Nationality. British. Occupation (s) Crafts collector, curator, gallery owner, writer. Muriel Rose (1897–1986) was a collector and publiciser of modern craft and design, a curator, gallery owner and writer, and important in the later Arts and Crafts movement. [1] [2] She has been described as having "made a formidable ...
The Red List of Endangered Crafts is an inventory of traditional crafts and trades practiced in the UK that are at risk of dying out in the succeeding generation. The original Red List, which took two years to compile, [1] was first published by Heritage Crafts on 3 May 2017 with financial support from the Radcliffe Trust. [2]
In 1974 the Canadian Handicrafts Guild merged with the Canadian Craftsman's Association to form the Canadian Crafts Council (CCC), based in Ottawa. At first the CCC was a federation of provincial crafts councils. Later it accepted membership from other crafts organizations. In 1996 the council began accepting craftspeople as individual members.
Craft production – Factory where products are hand-made. Decorative arts – Arts or crafts concerned with the design and manufacture of functional, beautiful objects. Fully feathered basket – Basket-ware made in Northern California. Guild – Association of artisans or merchants. Japanese craft – Handicrafts of Japan.