Crafts Study Centre: Essays for the Opening

Editors: Simon Olding and Pat Carter

Foreword: Sir Christopher Frayling

Publisher: Canterton Books, June 2004

Book Design: Sarah Jane Jackson

ISBN 0-9541627 - 4 - 9

This publication accompanied the official opening of the Crafts Study Centre at University College for the Creative Arts, Farhman, Surrey on 29 May, 2004.

ESSAYS:

A History of the Crafts Study Centre collections and archive Barley Roscoe

Ceramics: the need for a new history Edmund de Waal

Craft, design, artisan and art: a short introduction to textile studio practice since 1970 Lesley Millar

Calligraphy and lettering in the UK Ewan Clayton

The role of the Crafts Study Centre in defining craft furniture Matthew Burt

‘A conglomeration of interesting objects': the significance of the Crafts Study Centre Simon Olding