A table of the arts and crafts of the eighteenth century
A table of the arts and crafts of the eighteenth century, published in London in 1895 by the Guild & School of Handicraft and written by C. R. Ashbee, a designer working in the Arts and Crafts movement for craft-minded readers. The picture is a decorative band of stylised thistle-like flowers with curling stems, with the letters G U I L D spaced between them, shown as a printed header ornament for the guild's name. A designer might take from it the rhythm of repeated botanical motifs alternating with lettering, a model for a border or masthead.
