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Article: A new arts and crafts museum.(Guild of Handicraft)
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- January 1, 2006
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Ever since C.R. Ashbee moved his Guild of Handicraft to Chipping Campden in 1902, the Cotswolds have been associated with the Arts and Crafts movement. Alan Crawford explains how a new museum, planned for a seventeenth-century barn in Chipping Campden, will celebrate the history of the region's crafts--and their continuing vitality.
First of all, there is a place. If you flew low over Gloucestershire, coming up from the south, you would see the crumpled eiderdown of the Cotswolds laid out before you, ridged with wooded valleys to the west, smoothing out into rolling uplands to the east. At the northern tip of this geology, you could fly lower over the little town ...
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