Crafts Collection (page 10)

Russian Berlin Work Pattern with a spider and his web. Date: 1937

Great Indian Exhibition, Paris -- nine Indian men
Great Indian Exhibition (Grande Exposition India), held in Paris, showing nine Indian men with their arts and crafts. Date: 1902

Queen Mary - portrait in Petit Point
A portrait of Queen Mary, consort of King George V, worked in petit point specially for The Queen magazine, Silver Jubilee issue by the Disabled Soldiers Embroidery Industry of which her Majesty was

Russian Basket Maker Date: circa 1907

Pouges-Les-Eaux - Shops in the Covered Gallery
Pouges-Les-Eaux, in the Nievre department in central France - Shops in the Covered Gallery in the Park. Date: 1906

Bruges, Belgium - Women making lace
Lacemaking at Bruges, Belgium Date: circa 1910s

Lacemakers outside their home, Bruges, Belgium
Two elderly women making lace on the pavement outside their home in Bruges (Brugge), Belgium. Date: circa 1920

Sailmaker - Penzance, Cornwall
An elderly sailmaker (Arthur Willoughby), working in the traditional way in Penzance, Cornwall

Mat and cone making, NIPRCC East Harling, Norfolk
Mat and cone making at the East Harling, Norfolk, branch of the National Institutions for Persons Requiring Care and Control

Ireland Invites You poster
Poster promoting Ireland as a holiday destination showing a fisherman seated on a stool at a harbour intent on making a fishing net

Native American Indian Basketry
Native American Indian Basketmaking

Wood Turning, Tunisia
A carpenter turns wood supported using his feet

Tunisia - Boutique of a leather worker / saddler
A craftsmen working in leather sits making handbags and saddles in his Tunisian shop / boutique

Tunisia - Arab painters
Arab painters decorate metal pots/ewers in Tunisia, North Africa

Tunisia - Plaster Carving
The carving of fantastically decorative plaster screens in a Tunisian workshop

School of Carpet Making
A pupil at the School of Carpet-making run by Madame Delfau

Artisans - Morocco
Moroccan street artisans, making decorative inlaid furniture items in wood and metal

World War II 1941
Soldiers landing from a landing craft under cover of a smoke screen during World War II in 1941

Carpenters saw a large log
A team of carpenters use a long two-person saw to split a large trunk log into planks. Watercolour Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Weaver and admirer - Florence Hardy
Weaving a web deeper than friendship. An amorous advance by a young man toward a lady weaver working at her spinning wheel

A signwriter painting a pub sign
A signwriter paints the pub sign for the Hare and Hounds pub. Behind him can be seen other examples of his art and traditional tavern signs hanging in situ. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Two thatchers at work
Two thatchers repair the thatch on the roofs of two traditional country cottages. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Arab Carpentry Shop, Cairo, Egypt, making screens, furniture, bookstands and Mother-of-pearl inlay

Blacksmith shoeing a horse
A Blacksmith changes the shoes on a working horse. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

On board the luxury liner, L Atlantique, the central stree
On board the French luxury liner, L Atlantique. A unusual feature at the time, the central street of shops, over 150 meters long, with the spacious embarkation hall

On board the luxury liner, L Atlantique, the chapel, where
On board the French luxury liner, L Atlantique. A unusual feature at the time, the decorative chapel, where passenger could attend religious services and practise their devotions during a voyage

Burnt out liner L Atlantique, successfully brought into port
The burnt out liner, L Atlantique successfully brought into port at Cherbourg. The fire broke out in the early hours of 4th January 1933, at 6am the abandon ship order was given

Old English Drawing Room
A lady stands in the doorway of her Old English style drawing room

Lace-Making / Malta / Coates
Lace making at Fontana on Gozo, Maltese archipelago

French Street Traders
A man pulls a water cart, a minstrel sings along to his hand-cranked music box and a lady sits mending socks, on a street with a dentist, upholsterer and oyster shop

Cotton Balling / China
An old lady winds cotton into ballas, whilst a younger man polishes a crystal disk on a low bench. Their work in front of a modest homestead with a straw roof

Cultural Activities 16C
Mercury rides over in cockerel-driven chariot as citizens practice arts & sciences: painting, sculpture, music, medicine, astronomy & others

German Kitchen 1904
Impressive kitchen with Arts & Crafts cupboard and dresser

Ewell Millstone
Chipping out the cutting edges (dressing) a millstone at the old flour mill at Ewell, Surrey

German Women Spinning
A pretty scene in a German village, where old world crafts such as spinning with spinning wheels are still practised. Note the hand- embroidered head-dresses

Furniture Exhibition
Poster for an Exhibition of Textiles and Furniture designed by students of Bradford School of Arts & Crafts (2 of 2)

Myth / Athena / Minerva
Patron goddess of Athens also identified with Minerva, the Italian goddess of crafts

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