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The Hand and the Machine

Eight stops through the long argument between handwork and industry: a wheel older than writing, the exhibition that crowned the machine, the movements that answered it, and the fairground where hand and machine finally...

8 stops

From the Cottage Garden to the Cat Fancy

Ordinary domestic life, kept and cultivated at home, has repeatedly organized itself into real movements and institutions: a reaction against Victorian bedding schemes became the cottage garden style, wartime food...

8 stops

From Arts and Crafts to Maker Culture

A century and a half of hand work answering the machine: the Arts and Crafts revolt against factory production, Japan's parallel mingei philosophy, the studio pottery and studio craft movements it fed, and the...

12 stops

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