Motel Mischief, Arts and Crafts Style
I am writing this week's column from a hotel room in Salt Lake City, where I taped a television show Wednesday morning before appearing at the national SNAP! conference for do-it-yourself bloggers. In my other, non-Arts and Crafts life (and…
From Father to Son, and Back Again
If you have read much of what I have written about the Arts and Crafts movement, you may know that one of my special interests is the hand-hammered silver of William Waldo Dodge, who worked in Asheville from 1924 until the advent of World…
Motel Room Mischief, Arts and Crafts Style
I am writing this week's column from a hotel room in Salt Lake City, where I taped a television show Wednesday morning before appearing at the national SNAP! conference for do-it-yourself bloggers. In my other, non-Arts and Crafts life (and…
Two Days, 15 Antique Malls, 754 Booths, One Museum
Observations on an Antiquing Trip Across North Carolina:
After having encountered nearly every airline delay possible, I now have a rule: if I can drive to my destination in fewer than five hours, I give up the one-ounce bag of stale peanuts,…
A Woman of Letters
She was the last of the great letter writers.
Violet Hickok, better known to us simply as Grandma Hickok, lived her entire life on the Illinois prairie, where she and my grandfather (pictured) started farming during the Great Depression,…
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.