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Title: The craftsman
Year: 1901 (1900s)
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Subjects: Art Arts and crafts movement
Publisher: New York (etc.)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ractive lining to the inside of the boards andhiding the rather unfinished look of the joints. Here then, is our hand-boundbook, the making of which has been described in a some-what detailed fashion, though many important itemswhich play a large part in the work, have been omitted. The love of a beautiful book isa thing apart from the love of literature and reading, andalthough there is an unregenerate public who care asmuch for what a book contains as they do for its covers,yet even this public must own that there is an indefinablecharm in a perfect binding; one in which the visible and Jietangible beauties are supplemented by honest workman-ship and honest material. And when to the charm ofthis perfected whole is added the joy of building up andcompleting each part of it, small wonder is it that thebinder falls a victim to the fascinations of his craft andforgets to read the words of wisdom for which his handshave fashioned a fitting covering that will live in throughthe centuries*
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THE ART-HANDICRAFTS OF ITALY ITALY, more than any other country of Europe, is the*■• home of local art-industries* It is necessary only toname her cities, in order to recall the peculiar handicraftof each* Venice produces glass, mosaics and lace; Flor-ence, wood carvings and gilding, marble inlays andpainted parchment; Rome, silks of characteristic designand pearl beads; Naples, majolica, lava-carvings and tor-toise-shell work* Among the smaller cities and towns,Siena and Sorrento are Imown for their wood carvings;Leghorn for straw-plaiting, and Bellagio for her silkblanket industry. The more modern and commercialcities, like Milan, in which art-handicrafts do not flourish,lack the interest, the animation, and the picturesque qualitywhich distinguish the cities of busy workshops* The traveler in ItaJy is liable toignore the artistic, as well as the social value of thesehandicrafts. He sighs as he studies the modern Italianbuildings and many of the modem paintings* He fails torecog

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