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Craeft : how traditional crafts are about more than just making / Alexander Langlands.

by Langlands, Alex.

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Faber & Faber, 2018.

306.46094 L282c

Material culture -- Europe -- History.

Artisans -- Europe -- History.

Handicraft industries -- Europe -- History.

Antiquities, Prehistoric -- Europe.

9780571324408 (hc.)

Alternate title:

Craft : how traditional crafts are about more than just making

How traditional crafts are about more than just making

344 pages ; 24 cm.

Includes index.

Defining cræft -- Making hay -- Sticks and stones -- Grenja'arsta'ur -- The skep-making beekeeper -- Taming the wilds -- Weft and warp -- Under thatch -- The shoe and the harness -- Seed and sward -- The oxna mere -- Fire and earth -- The craft of digging -- Baskets and boats.

In a period of meaningless mass manufacturing, our growing appetite for hand-made objects, artisan food, and craft beverages reveals our deep cravings for tradition and quality. There was a time when craft meant something very different; the Old English word craeft possessed an almost indefinable sense of knowledge, wisdom, and power. Historian and BBC presenter Alex Langlands goes in search of the mysterious lost meaning of craeft. Through a series of mini-histories, told with his trademark energy and charm, Langlands resurrects the ancient craftspeople who fused exquisite skill with back-breaking labour - and passionately defends the renewed importance of craeft today.

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