Traveling Tales
As any of you who have been waiting for a return phone call or email from me may have assumed, I have been traveling lately, but none of my trips have had any Arts and Crafts connections. In fact, as you are reading this, I am inside a sixteen-foot…
Seller Beware!
It seems in recent weeks that I have received an increased number of emails from readers who are wanting to sell an antique or work of art. In addition to wanting my recommendation for how to go about selling it, they invariably also want…
Hoping for the Unexpected
I am in the midst of a seven day road trip, so have dipped into our files for a column I had written previously. By next week I'll have a fresh adventure to share!
Washington has never claimed to be the birthplace of the Arts & Crafts…
Have We Become a Tradition?
It was an uneventful Sunday night after an uneventful week, which sometimes is just what we need, right
And so I picked up the latest issue of a glossy regional magazine, intrigued by a cover story which read “Bold Re-Do for a Grove Park…
A Long Story and a Hard Lesson
During a conversation I was having with a reporter last week, I was asked how I got started as a woodworker and antiques restorer, two of my former careers and still my favorite hobbies. After five years as a high school English teacher (yet…
About Us
ArtsandCraftsCollector.com is a website dedicated to exploring the works, artisans, historical origins and the contemporary revival of the American Arts & Crafts Movement. The historic movement started as a response to the country’s Industrial Revolution and encouraged simple design paying tribute to the natural world over the intricate design of the Victorian era.