A few chapters in workshop re-construction and citizenship
A treatise by C. R. Ashbee of the Guild and School of Handicraft, printed in London and Boston in 1894, setting out his ideas on workshop reconstruction and craft education in the Arts and Crafts tradition. The four pictures are black-ink decorative headpieces and tailpieces: a stylised thistle-like bloom on a curving stem, and a sinuous art nouveau flower with a central figure whose petals and leaves form a symmetrical composition. A designer could take their bold silhouette, flat black masses against cream paper, and the whiplash stems.
