| Last Sunday I found myself relaxing in
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| | experience and skill the crafter applies
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| the living room as I surfed the internet
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| | to the design. Handmade items can further
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| while my husband flipped channels on our
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| | be catagorized by seperating them into
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| seldom-watched television. After what
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| | two groups: traditional crafts (that are
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| seemed an eternity of switching from
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| | created in the same way they have been
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| fishing shows to hunting shows, he
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| | for hundreds of years) and modern crafts,
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| finally settled on Antiques Roadshow on
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| | which tend to be variations on
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| PBS . The objects took us on a journey
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| | traditional crafts.Traditional crafts
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| through the past, introducing us to a
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| | were typically produced in very small
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| wide array of pottery, woodworking,
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| | geographic areas and were often based on
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| sculpture, glass blowing and other
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| | necessity. For example, a young child
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| crafts. The announcer then informed us
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| | who lived in rural America might have
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| that the item they would be examining
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| | been apprenticed to a glassblower, a
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| next would be the highest appraisal of
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| | master craftsman who would teach the
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| any item shown on Antiques Roadshow. I'm
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| | child the art of making glass items that
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| sure you can imagine my surprise when, as
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| | were often used in the homes surrounding
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| they returned from a commercial break, I
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| | his shop. Over the years, the master
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| was greeted with the site of an elderly
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| | craftsman would impart knowledge to the
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| gentleman standing next to what appeared
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| | apprentice, who would spend years
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| to be a rather innocuous blanket.As I
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| | refining his techniques and eventually be
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| listened to the history of the yellow
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| | ready to set up a shop of his own,
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| threads that were woven into the
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| | earning a living off the skills he had
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| heirloom, I knew that he did indeed have
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| | aquired. Activities such as woodworking,
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| a treasure on his hands; a Ute-style
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| | glassblowing, metalsmithing, dressmaking
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| blanket made by a Navajo Indian with such
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| | and even the manufacture of pottery
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| skill that the tightly woven threads were
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| | became known as 'crafts' because they
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| actually water proof, rumored to have
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| | were a profession.In the last part of the
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| been a gift to a family member from Kit
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| | 18th century America experienced an
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| Carson . The amazing example of
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| | industrial revolution that began to alter
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| craftsmanship gave me pause, bringing my
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| | the way everyday items were manufactured.
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| mind to a discussion that I have
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| | The number of factories began to
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| encountered in various forms across the
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| | increase, leading the way to the
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| crafting community.There was a time when
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| | mechanisation of the production process.
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| the term 'craft' referred to a highly
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| | Over time, this gradually reduced or even
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| skilled trade. Now, it seems to evoke
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| | eliminated the role of the professional
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| memories of being small and working
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| | craftsman, relegating the term to the few
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| diligently to glue popsicle sticks
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| | who continued to practiced their age old
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| together and coat them with glitter to
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| | art out of either necessity or defiance.
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| make a picture frame for mom. When did
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| | Additionaly, items traditionally made by
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| this subtle mental perception change; how
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| | each family (such as soaps, clothing and
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| did we as a society lose our respect for
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| | toys) became the provenance of the
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| the word 'craft'?In order to understand
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| | assembly line.The far-reaching fingers of
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| the change in society's opinion, we must
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| | the Industrial Revolution affected every
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| look to this history of arts and crafts.
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| | aspect of society. It was a time that
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| The term 'arts and crafts' comprises an
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| | took a greater toll on the everyday life
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| entire lot of activities and hobbies that
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| | of a family than nearly any other; a toll
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| share one common denominator- the items
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| | that was immediatly recognized by those
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| are made by hand, with the quality of the
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| | who were not making profits from the
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| final piece relying on the knowledge,
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| | machines.
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