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“The danger that the present course of civilization will destroy the beauty of life” rings true today just as it did in 1880 when William Morris was speaking, writing and organizing against the destruction of craftsmanship, community, quality and the landscape. Morris knew what the world was like before the dark cloud of the factory blustered into rural England, pulling in working class men, women and children to tediously toil their days away for a meager monthly earning. Morris remembered the stories of the Craftsmen Guilds of the Middle Ages who worked together to create beautiful, useful and important objects that were lovingly made and cared for. He mourned the loss of passion in daily work which he believed to be the engine of life’s beauty. “Down to the very recent days everything that the hand of man touched was more or less beautiful. So that in those days all people who made anything shared in art, as well as all people who used the things so made: that is ALL people shared in art.”
(limited edition of 200)
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