A research project on the Arts and Crafts movement (c. 1850–1915), tested through close reading of primary texts. The notes are an Obsidian vault.
- H1: Craft in the Arts and Crafts movement was about personal development, meaning the maker's ability to develop a practice, and not only technical skill.
- H2: The movement distinguished craft at a technical level from craft at a theory- or practice-based level.
- Hypothesis Tracker.md: definitions, metrics, evidence for and against, status.
- Literature Review.md: candidate sources per hypothesis (Ruskin, Morris, Lethaby, Ashbee, Cobden-Sanderson, Wright, Crane, The Craftsman, and others) plus secondary scholarship.
Readings/: texts being coded. Currently Ruskin's "The Nature of Gothic" and Wright's "The Art and Craft of the Machine."- References.md: source links.
Early stage. Both hypotheses are in the coding phase.