Reference Library
As both a collector and a researcher, I have often wished there was one site where every book ever written on the Arts & Crafts movement was listed. Now that place exists. Together we can compile on this website a list of every book of interest to Arts & Crafts collectors. All you have to do is pull some of the books off your bookshelf (go for the less obvious ones – and check below for duplicate entries) and email me the title, author, publisher and most recent copyright date. I will sort them by category and list them here so that anytime you or anyone else wants to research anything relating to the Arts & Crafts movement, you will start your search here.
For the time being, we will omit those books written during the original Arts & Crafts movement, as well as articles which have appeared in our present-day Arts & Crafts magazines. Hopefully, those have already been catalogued. I’m sure their staffs will help us out with a direct link to those lists.
So, grab a book and send me an email at info@ArtsandCraftsCollector.com.
– bj
Articles provided by Dr. Jonathan Clancy of the Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms
ARCHITECTURE/THE A&C MOVEMENT
Along Bungalow Lines (Creating an Arts & Crafts Home) by Paul Duscherer & Linda Svendsen
The American Arts & Crafts Home 1900 – 1915: Selections from the Two Red Roses Foundation, Susan Montgomery
American Arts & Crafts: Virtue in Design, Leslie Greene Bowman
American Bungalow, 1880-1930, Clay Lancaster
American Bungalow Classics, John Brinkmann
American Bungalow Style, Robert Winter & Alexander Vertikoff
American Victorian Cottage Home, Palliser & Co.
Apostles of Beauty: Arts & Crafts from Britain to Chicago, Judith A. Barter
Architecture and the Arts & Crafts Movement in Boston: Harvard’s H. Langford Warren, Maureen Meister Arden, Mark Taylor
Arts & Crafts, James Massey
Arts & Crafts, Kitty Turgeon & Robert Rust
Arts & Crafts Architecture: History & Heritage in New England, Maureen Meister
The Arts & Crafts Cabin, Robbin Obomsawin
The Arts & Crafts Collector’s Guide, David Rago et. al.
The Arts & Crafts Home, Kitty Turgeon & Robert Rust
The Arts & Crafts House, Adrian Tinniswood
Arts & Crafts Houses, Tina Skinner & Steven Paul Whitsett
Arts & Crafts Ideals: Wisdom from the Arts & Crafts Movement in America, Compiled by Bruce Smith, Yoshiko Yamamoto & Gail Yngve
The Arts & Crafts Lifestyle and Design, Wendy Hitchmough
The Arts & Crafts Movement, Elizabeth Cumming & Wendy Kaplan
The Arts & Crafts Movement in America, 1876-1916, Edited by Robert Judson Clark
The Arts & Crafts Movement in the Pacific Northwest, Lawrence Kreisman & Glenn Mason
Arts & Crafts Objects, Imogen Hart
Arts & Crafts Style and Spirit: Craftspeople of the Revival, Chase Reynolds Ewald
Arts & Crafts Walks in Broadway and Chipping Campden, Alan Crawford
‘The Art That is Life’: The Arts & Crafts Movement in America, 1875-1920, Wendy Kaplan
Arroyo Craftsman, The Arroyo Guild of Fellow Craftsmen
The Atlas of American Architecture, Tom Martinson
Bauhaus, Dessau: Walter Gropius, Dennis Sharp
The Best of British Arts & Crafts, Brian Coleman
Beyond the Bungalow: Grand Homes in the Arts & Crafts Tradition, Paul Duchscherer & Linda Svendsen
Building with Nature: Inspiration for the California Arts & Crafts Home, Leslie M. Freudenheim & Elisabeth Sussman
The Bungalow: America’s Arts & Crafts Home, Paul Duchscherer & Douglas Keister
Bungalow: American Restoration Style, Jan Cigliano
Bungalow Bathrooms, Jane Powell & Linda Svendsen
Bungalow Colors: Exteriors, Robert Schweitzer
Bungalow Details: Exterior, Jane Powell & Linda Svendsen
Bungalow Kitchens, Jane Powell & Linda Svendsen
Bungalow Nation, Diane Maddex & Alexander Vertikoff
Bungalow Plans, Christian & Christen Gladu
Bungalow Style, April Halberstadt
Bungalow: The Ultimate Arts & Crafts Home, Jane Powell & Linda Svendsen
Cabin in the Woods, Ralph Kylloe
California Bungalow, Robert Winter
Carl & Karin Larsson: Creators of the Swedish Style, Michael Snodin & Elisabet Stavenow-Hidemark
C.F.A. Voysey: Architect, Designer, Individualist, Anne Stewart O’Donnell
Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Alan Crawford
Charles Rennie Mackintosh, James Mccaulay
Classic Cottages: Simple, Romantic Homes, Brian Coleman & Douglas Keister
The Complete Illustrated 1910 Edition of the Sears & Roebuck Builder’s Catalog, Dover Press
Country and Suburban Homes of the Prairie School Period, Hermann Valentin Von Holst
The Craftsman & The Critic: Defining Usefulness and Beauty in Arts & Crafts-Era Boston, Beverly K. Brandt
Details: The Architect’s Art, Sally Byrne Woodbridge
Edgar Miller and the Handmade Home: Chicago’s Forgotten Renaissance Man, Richard Cahan & Michael Williams
The Encyclopedia of Arts & Crafts: The International Arts Movement, 1850-1920, Gillian Naylor, Patricia Bayer, et al
From Architecture to Object: Masterworks of the American Arts & Crafts Movement, Hirschl & Adler Galleries
Greene & Greene, Marvin Rand
Greene & Greene: Architecture as a Fine Art, Furniture and Related Designs, Randell L. Makinson
Greene & Greene: Creating a Style, Randell L. Makinson & Thomas A. Heinz
Greene & Greene Masterworks, Bruce Smith & Alexander Vertikoff
Greene & Greene: The Passion and the Legacy, Randell L. Makinson
Greene & Greene: The Blacker House, Randell L. Makinson, Thomas A. Heinz & Brad Pitt
Hints on Household Taste: The Classic Handbook of Victorian Interior Decoration, Charles Eastlake
Historic Preservation, Norman Tyler
Home from Nowhere: Remaking our World for the 21st Century, James Howard Kunstler
House Histories: A Guide to Tracing the Geneology of Your Home, Sally Light
Inside the Bungalow: America’s Arts & Crafts Interior, Paul Duchscherer
In the Arts & Crafts Style, Barbara Mayer
Irreplaceable Artifacts: Decorating the Home With Architectural Ornament, Evan Blum
Joseph Urban, John Loring
Kitchen Hoods for the Arts & Crafts Home, Joseph Mross
Living with Arts & Crafts, Ros Byam Shaw
Longfellow Planbook: Remodeling Plans for Bungalows and Other Small Urban Homes, Robert Gerloff and Kristi Johnson
The New Bungalow, Matthew Bialecki, Christian Gladu, et al
The New Craftsman Index, Marilyn Fish
The Not-So-Big House, Sarah Susanka
The Old House Book of Cottages & Bungalows, Compiled by Lawrence Grow
Old House Journal Guide to Restoration, Dutton
Old Houses, Steve Gross
Places of the Soul: Architecture and Illusion, Christopher Day
Poetry to the Earth: The Arts & Crafts Movement in Deerfield, Suzanne Flynt
The Prairie School, Allen H. Brooks
Progressive Design in the Midwest: The Purcell-Cutts House and the Prairie School Collection at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Jennifer Komar Olivarez
Redux: The Arts & Crafts Revival 1972-2012, Judith Budwig & Jeffrey Preston
Romance of the Mission, Elmo Baca
Rustic Traditions, Ralph Kylloe
Simplicity or Splendour? Arts & Crafts Living: Objects from the Cheltenham Collections, Edited by Annette Carruthers & Mary Greensted
Small House Design, Storey Communications
Storybook Style: America’s Whimsical Homes of the Twenties, Arrol Gellner & Douglas Keister
Toward a Simpler Way of Life: The Arts & Crafts Architects of California, Robert Winter
Treasures of the American Arts & Crafts Movement, 1890-1920, Tod M. Volpe & Beth Cathers
Turn-of-the-Century House Designs, William Cornstock
Twentieth-Century Building Materials: History and Conservation
Twentieth-Century Ornament, James Massey
Updating Classic America: Bungalows, Louis Wasserman & Caren Connolly
Watts Chapel: A Guide to the Symbols of Mary Watts’s Arts and Crafts Masterpiece, Mark Bill
Your Future Home: Architect-Designed Houses of the Early 1920s, American Institute of Architects
ART & DESIGN
A Room of Their Own: The Bloomsbury Artists in American Collections, Gerzina, Green, Harvey, Hussey & Reed
Arts & Crafts: A Review of the Work executed by Students in the leading Art Schools of Great Britian & Ireland, Edited by Charles Holme
Arts & Crafts Design, William Harrison Varnum
Arts & Crafts Design in American: A State-by-State Guide, James Massey & Shirley Maxwell
Arts & Crafts: Designs for the Home, Douglas Congdon-Martin
Arts & Crafts Stencilling, W.G. Sutherland
Art With a Mission: Objects of the Arts & Crafts Movement, Patricia J. Fidler
The Beautiful Necessity: Decorating with Arts & Crafts, Bruce Smith & Yoshiko Yamamoto
The Bookplates and Badges of C.F.A. Voysey, Karen Livingstone
Gustave Baumann: Nearer to Art, Acton, Krause & Yurseven
Norma Bassett Hall: Catalog Raisonne of the Block Prints and Serigraphs, Joby Patterson
The Influence of Japanese Art on Design, Hannah Sigur
ART POTTERY / GLASS
Adelaide Alsop Robineau: Glory in Porcelain, Edited by Peg Weiss
Alternative American Ceramics, 1870-1955: The Other American Art Pottery, Ken Forster
American Art Pottery: The Collector’s Guide to Makers, Marks, and Factory Histories, Ralph & Terry Kovel
Art Glass Nouveau, Ray & Lee Grover
Art Pottery of America, Lucile Henzke
Art Pottery of the United States, Paul Evans
Artistic Luxury: Faberge Tiffany, Lalique, Stephen Harrison
Arts & Crafts Pottery and Ceramics, Joanna Wissinger
Beauty in Common Things: American Arts & Crafts Pottery from the Two Red Roses Foundation, Martin Eidelberg, Jonathan Clancy
Biographies in American Ceramic Art, 1870-1970, Ken Forster
The Book of Buffalo Pottery, Seymour & Violet Altman
The Collector’s Encyclopedia of Weller Pottery, Sharon & Bob Huxford
Fired by Ideals: Arequipa Pottery and the Arts & Crafts Movement, Suzanne Baizerman, Lynn Downey & John Toki
The House of Haeger, 1914-1944: The Revitalization of American Art Pottery, Joe & Joyce Paradis
Introducing Roseville Pottery, Mark Bassett
Motawi Tileworks: Contemporary Handcrafted Tiles in the Arts & Crafts Tradition, Anne Stewart O’Donnell
Old Florida Pottery: Potters in Paradise,The Collector’s Guide to History, Makers & Marks, Alfred R. Frankel
Pottery & Ceramics, Joanna Wissinger
Pottery, Politics, Art, George Ohr
Rookwood Pottery at the Philadelphia Museum of Art: The Gerald & Virginia Gordon Collection, Nancy E. Owen
Rookwood Pottery: Over 10 Years of Auction Results, 1990-2002, Treadway Gallery
Teco: Art Pottery of the Prairie School, Sharon S. Darling
Tiffany Favrile Pottery and the Quest of Beauty, Martin Eidelberg
Tiffany Glass: A Passion for Color, Rosalind M. Pepall
Tiffany Studios’ Techniques: Inspiration for Today’s Artists, Edith Crouch
Toby & Character Jugs of the 20th Century and Their Makers, David C. Fastenau and Stephen M. Mullins
Weller Pottery: The Rare, The Unusual, The Seldom Seen, Linda Carrigan & Allan Wunsch
William De Morgan: Arts and Crafts Potter, Rob Higgins and Christopher Stolbert Robinson
Articles
Edwin AtLee Barber, The Pottery and Porcelain of the United States (1893)
https://library.si.edu/digital-library/book/potteryporcelai00barb
Jenny J. Young, The Ceramic Art: A Compendium of the History and Manufacture of Pottery and Porcelain (1878)
W.P. Jervis, Rough Notes on Pottery (1896)
https://archive.org/details/roughnotesonpott00jerv/page/n5/mode/2up
Rookwood Pottery, Rookwood Pottery (n.d. ca. 1895)
https://archive.org/details/rookwoodpotter00rook/page/n3/mode/2up
Walter Ellsworth Gray articles in the magazine Brush and Pencil:
On Grueby:
On Rookwood:
On Gates / Teco:
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
About Wright: An Album of Recollections by Those Who Knew Frank Lloyd Wright, Edgar Tafel
A Testament, Frank Lloyd Wright
The Early Work of Frank Lloyd Wright: The “Ausgefuhrte Bauten” of 1911, Dover Press
The Essential Frank Lloyd Wright: Critical Writings on Architecture, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer
Frank Lloyd Wright, Spencer Hart
Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie School, H. Allen Brooks
Frank Lloyd Wright: Architecture and Nature, David Hoffman
Frank Lloyd Wright: Art Glass of the Martin House Complex, Eric Jackson-Forsberg
Frank Lloyd Wright: Complete Works Volume 2, 1917-1942, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer
Frank Lloyd Wright: Interior Style & Design, Doreen Ehrlich
Frank Lloyd Wright: Letters to Apprentices, Selected by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer
Frank Lloyd Wright: Preserving an Architectural Heritage, David A. Hanks
Frank Lloyd Wright: The Rooms, Interiors and Decorative Arts, Margo Stipe
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Larkin Building: Myth and Fact, Jack Quinan
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House: The Illustrated Story of an Architectural Masterpiece, Donald Hoffman
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin and Taliesin West, Kathryn Smith
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Unity Temple: A Good Time Place, Patrick R. Cannon
The Gardens of Frank Lloyd Wright, Derek Fell
Loving Frank (A Novel), Nancy Horan
The Noble Room: The Inspired Conception and Tumultuous Creation of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Unity Temple, David M. Sokol
The Vision of Frank Lloyd Wright: A Complete Guide to the Designs of an Architectural Genius, Thomas A. Heinz
Visions of Wright: Photographs, Farrell Grehan, Bulfinch Press
Wright Sites: A Guide to Frank Lloyd Wright Public Places, Princeton Architectural Press
Years with Frank Lloyd Wright: Apprentice to Genius, Edgar Tafel
FURNITURE
A Man as Big as the West: Ralph Hubbard, Nellie Yost Synder
Arts & Crafts Furniture: From Classic to Contemporary, Kevin P. Rodel & Jonathan Binzen
Arts and Crafts Furniture: The Complete Brooks Catalog of 1912, Dover Press
As Bees in Honey Drown, Charles F. Hamilton
Authentic Arts & Crafts Furniture Projects, Christopher Schwarz, Jim Stack, et al
Building Arts & Crafts Furniture, Paul Kemner & Peggy Zdila
Charles Rennie Mackintosh: The Complete Furniture, Furniture Drawings and Interior Designs, Roger Billcliffe
The Custom Furniture Sourcebook, Kerry Pierce
Furniture Designed by Architects, Marian Page
Furniture of the American Arts & Crafts Movement: Stickley & Roycroft Mission Oak, David M. Cathers
Greene & Greene: Architecture as a Fine Art, Furniture and Related Designs, Randell L. Makinson
Greene & Greene Furniture: Poems of Wood & Light, David Mathias
Grove Park Inn Arts & Crafts Furniture, Bruce E. Johnson
Mackintosh Furniture, Roger Billcliffe
Making Rustic Furniture, Daniel Mack
Mission Furniture: How to Make It, Popular Mechanics Company/Dover
So Various Are the Forms It Assumes: American Arts & Crafts Furniture from the Two Red Roses Foundation, David Cathers and Susan Montgomery
Articles
Shop of the Crafters at Cincinnati 1906 Catalog
https://digital.cincinnatilibrary.org/digital/collection/p16998coll22/id/5048/rec/9
“Structure and Ornament in the Craftsman Workshops,” The Craftsman 5 (Jan. 1904): 390-97. [This is the introduction of Stickley’s inlaid furniture designs]
Sadakichi Hartman, “Charles Rohlfs: A Worker in Wood,” Wilson’s Photographic Magazine 49 (Feb. 1912): 73-6. [Scroll up from the first page for some images]
Arts & Crafts Exhibition Society: Catalogue of the First Exhibition (1888) [You may recognize the cover from the first slide yesterday]
https://archive.org/details/ACESExhib01AAD19801797/mode/2up
Catalog of the Austrian Exhibition at the 1904 St. Louis Exposition
https://archive.org/details/universalexhibit00aust/mode/2up
Handmade at the Roycroft Shops (ca. 1915) [Good blend of Furniture, metals, and even some lighting in case you are coming next week]\
https://archive.org/details/handmadeatroycro00royc/mode/2up
GUSTAV STICKLEY
A Complex Fate: Gustav Stickley and the Craftsman Movement, Barry Sanders
Collected Works of Gustav Stickley, Edited by Stephen Gray & Robert Edwards
Craftsman Homes, Gustav Stickley
The Furniture of Gustav Stickley: History, Techniques, Projects, Joseph J. Bavaro & Thomas L. Mossman
Gustav Stickley, David Cathers
Gustav Stickley: 1884-1900, Marilyn Fish
Gustav Stickley and the American Arts & Crafts Movement, Kevin W. Tucker
Gustav Stickley: Heritage and Early Years, Marilyn Fish
Gustav Stickley: His Craft, Patricia Bartinique
Gustav Stickley: The Craftsman, Mary Ann Smith
Gustav Stickley’s Craftsman Farms: A Pictorial History, David Cathers
Gustav Stickley’s Craftsman Farms: The Quest for an Arts & Crafts Utopia, Mark Alan Hewitt
The Gustav Stickley Photo Archives, Douglas Congdon-Martin
More Craftsman Homes, Gustav Stickley
The Stickley Brothers, Michael Clark & Jill Thomas-Clark
Stickley Craftsman Furniture Catalogs, Dover Press
Stickley’s Craftsman Homes: Plans, Drawings, Photographs, Ray Stubblebine
Stickley Style: Arts & Crafts Homes in the Craftsman Tradition, David Cathers & Alexander Vertikoff
The Forgotten Rebel: Gustav Stickley and His Craftsman Mission Furniture, John Crosby Freeman
Articles
Things Wrought by the United Crafts for the Cobb Eastman Company, ca. 1902. https://archive.org/details/thingswroughtb00unit/mode/2up
Gustav Stickley, “The Structural Style in Cabinet-Making,” House Beautiful 15 (December 1903): 19-24.
Helen Fitzgerald Sanders, “The Craftsman Movement and What it Means,” Overland Monthly 49 (March 1907): 226-29.
Mary Fanton Roberts, “One Man’s Story,” The Craftsman 30 (May 1916): 188-200. [A very dramatic account of Chromewald Furniture]
“A Progressive Step in American Cabinet Making,” The Craftsman 30 (September 1916): 624-27.
JEWELRY
Arts and Crafts Jewelry in Boston: Frank Gardner Hale and His Circle Book by Emily Stoehrer and others
Creating Beauty: Arts & Crafts Jewelry & Enamels by Rosalie Berberian
Hand Wrought Arts and Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry: 1890-1940 by Darcy L .Evon
Jewelry and Metalwork in the Arts & Crafts Tradition by Elyse Zorn Karlin
Maker and Muse: Women and Early Twentieth Century Art Jewelry
Pre-Raphaelite to Arts and Crafts Jewelry by Charlotte Gere and Geoffrey Munn
LANDSCAPING & GARDENING
Arts & Crafts Gardens, Wendy Hitchmough
Arts and Crafts Gardens (Gardens for Small Country Houses) by Gertrude Jekyll and Lawrence Weaver
Arts & Crafts Master: The Houses and Gardens of M.H Baillie Scott, Ian Macdonald-Smith
Gardens of the Arts and Crafts Movement, Judith Tankard
The Once and Future Gardener (Garden Writing from the Golden Age of Magazines 1900-1940) edited and with introduction by Virginia Tuttle Clayton, published by David R. Godine
Outside the Bungalow: America’s Arts & Crafts Garden, Paul Duchscherer & Doughlas Keister
Rustic Garden Architecture, Ralph Kylloe
LIGHTING
How to Make Mission Style Lamps & Shades, John Duncan Adams.
Beautiful, Useful, Inevitable: Arts & Crafts Lighting From the Two Red Roses Foundation, David Cathers.
Articles
Judith Chaffee, “Lamps and Lampshades,” The House Beautiful 11 (February 1902): 187-92.
Sanford Freeman, “Decorative Lighting,”The Craftsman4 (June 1903): 173-77.
“The Charm of Diffused Light,” The Craftsman 12 (June 1907): 372.
“Some Craftsman Lighting Fixtures,” The Craftsman 18 (September 1910): 703-04.
“Lighting the Home by Electricity,” The Craftsman 24 (April 1913): 104-08.
The Handel Company, Handel Lamps and Fixtures (Meriden, CT: n.d.)
https://archive.org/details/handellampsfixtu00hand/mode/2up
Sears, Roebuck and Co., Electric, Gas, and Combination Lighting Fixtures (Chicago: Sears, Roebuck and Co., 1900) [Good for context to see what the popular styles in lighting were for the period] https://archive.org/details/electricgascombi00sear
Elizabeth Gregory, “Lamps, Good and Bad,” The House Beautiful 19 (March 1906): 20-21.
METALWARE
Arthur J. Stone: Designer & Silversmith, 1847-1938, Elenita C. Chickering
Art Nouveau Decorative Ironwork, Theodore Menten
Arts & Crafts Metalwork & Silver, Joanna Wissinger
Chicago Metalsmiths, Sharon S. Darling
Elbert Hubbard’s Roycrofters as Artist-Craftsman, Robert G. Koch
Grand Rapids Art Metalwork, 1902-1918, Heartwood Publishers
The History and Renaisance of the Roycroft, Charles Hamilton, Robert Rust & Kitty Turgeon
More Roycroft Art Metal, Kevin McConnell
Newlyn Copper – Arts & Crafts Copper Work in Newlyn, Daryl Bennett & Colin Pill
Roycroft Art Metal, Kevin McConnell
The Roycroft Campus, Robert Rust & Kitty Turgeon
Roycroft Furniture & Collectibles: Identification and Value Guide, Larry Koon
These Humbler Metals: Arts & Crafts Metalwork from the Two Red Roses Foundation, David Cathers, Jonathan Clancy, Susan Montgomery
Articles
“The Interesting Story of Two Metal Workers,” The Artist (September 1899):182-85.
Augustus F. Rose, Copper Work: An Illustrated Text Book for teachers and Students in the Manual Arts (Boston: Atkinson, Mentzer & Co., 1908)
The Craftsman 2 (May 1902) (first issue devoted to metalwork)
http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/DLDecArts/DLDecArts-idx?type=header&id=DLDecArts.hdv02n02
Irene Sargent, “A Recent Arts and Crafts Exhibition,” The Craftsman 4 (May 1903): 69-83. (Article featuring Spittle Metalwork shown by Stickley)
“An Appreciation of the Work of Robert Jarvie,” The Craftsman 5 (December 1903): 271-76.
PRICE & COLLECTING GUIDES
Arts & Crafts Shopmarks: 1895-1940, Bruce E. Johnson
Collector’s Style Guide: Arts & Crafts, Malcolm Haslam
The Price Guide to the Arts and Crafts Movement 1988, 1992, 1998, 2003, Johnson, Rago, Rust, Turgeon, et. al.
Price Guide to Rookwood Pottery Wall Plaques, Larry Koon
TEXTILES / LEATHER
American Arts and Crafts Textiles, Dianne Ayres, Timothy L. Hansen, Tommy Arthur McPherson II, and Beth Ann McPherson
Artistic Leather of the Arts & Crafts Era, Daniel Lees
Arts & Crafts Rugs for Craftsman Interiors: The Crab Tree Farm Collection, Linda Parry, David Cathers, et al
Arts & Crafts Textiles, Ann Wallace and Phil Bard
Fabrics for Historic Buildings: A Guide to Selecting Reproduction Fabrics, Jane Nylander
Textiles of the Arts & Crafts Movement, Linda Parry
Articles
“’Vancroft’–A Great Country Estate,” Country Life in America (March 1904): 419-22. [Advertisement / Article on the home which featured that early Stickley fire screen covered in a Navajo rug.]
“Couch Pillows of Artistic Design,” Home Needlework Magazine 12 (February 1910): 10-12. [A useful article that shows the spread of Arts and Crafts designs into a broader market. Special attention should be paid to “An Effective Den Pillow” on page 11, which is a strong showing for a period needlework pun]
Lewis F. Day, Nature in Ornament (London: B. T. Batsford, 1892) [Just a great reference on design and plant form that has relevance for textiles, pottery, and inlay]
Mabel Tuke Preistman, “Hand Made Rugs, the Revival of an Old Handicraft,” American Homes and Gardens (February 1909): 50-52. [A period article that features the work of Helen Albee and Marion Volk]
“Three Craftsman Canvas Pillows,” The Craftsman 5 (October 1903): 94. [Great examples of that early Native American aesthetic promoted briefly by Stickley]
“Art Needlework at Newcomb College,” The Craftsman 5 (December 1903): 282-86.
Irene Sargent, “Indian Basketry: Its Structure and Decoration,” The Craftsman 7 (December 1904): 321-34.
WEBSITES
Elbert Hubbard – Roycroft Museum
Kirkland Museum of Fine and Decorative Art
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
National Museum of American History
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