Arts and Crafts Essays was an influential collection of essays on the decorative arts by the members of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society published in 1893. The preface was written by William Morris, and the essays were mostly catalogue introductions to exhibitions organised by the society. The contributors were leading figures in their fields, and helped to shape design and handicraft in a wide variety of fields. Many of the contributors were architects.Arts and Crafts Essays (London : Rivington, Percival, & Co, 1893. https://archive.org/details/artscraftsessays00artsrich/mode/2up Accessed 22 July 2026https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Arts_and_Crafts_Essays Accessed 23 July 2026
"The Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society has availed itself from the first of both lecture and essay, as well as the display of examples. Lectures and demonstrations were given during the progress of the Exhibitions, and essays written by well-known workers in the crafts of which they treated have accompanied the catalogues. These papers have now been collected together, and revised by their authors, and appear in book form under the editorship of Mr. William Morris, whose name has been practically associated with the revival of beauty in the arts and crafts of design in many ways before our Society came into existence, and who with his co-workers may be said to have been the pioneer of our English Renascence, which it is our earnest desire to foster and perpetuate." - Walter Crane
The Essays Of the Revival of Design and Handicraft: with Notes on the Work of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society - Walter Crane Textiles - William Morris Of Decorative Painting and Design - Walter Crane Of Wall Papers - Walter Crane Fictiles - G.T. Robinson Metal Work - W.A.S. Benson Stone and Wood Carving - Somers Clarke Furniture - Stephen Webb Stained Glass - Somers Clarke Table Glass - Somers Clarke Printing - William Morris and Emery Walker Bookbinding - T. J. Cobden-Sanderson Of Mural Painting - Ford Madox Brown Of Sgraffito Work - Heywood Sumner Of Stucco and Gesso - G. T. Robinson Of Cast Iron - W.R. Lethaby Of Dyeing as an Art - William Morris Of Embroidery - May Morris Of Lace - Alan S. Cole Of Book Illustration and Book Decoration - Reginald Blomfield Of Designs and Working Drawings - Lewis F. Day Furniture and the Room - Edward S. Prior Of the Room and Furniture - Halsey Ricardo The English Tradition - Reginald Blomfield Carpenters' Furniture - W.R. Lethaby Of Decorated Furniture - J.H. Pollen Of Carving - Stephen Webb Intarsia and Inlaid Wood-Work - T.G. Jackson Woods and Other Materials - Stephen Webb Of Modern Embroidery - Mary E. Turner On Materials- May Morris Colour - May Morris Stitches and Mechanism - Alan S. Cole Design - John D. Sedding On Designing for the Art of Embroidery - Selwyn Image
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