The Arts and Crafts Movement

The Arts and Crafts movement's reign began in 1885 - 1900
Between these years many events happened and here we are about to explore them in depth.

How it began was, due to a reaction against the Industrial revolution - the basis of this - was because of the development of the steam engine by James Watt in 1765 - which led to the beginning of the mechanization of industry, architecture  and transportation - this whole development led to unfortunate mishaps that were supposed to be good but had an extremely negative toll on  the lives of the rural working man in Britain.

The way the working man of this era lived was unfortunate, their living standards gradually worsened and deteriorated.
In Britain industrialization left people with a general mindset that their lives had changed for the worst and there was no turning back in making them have normal and financially functioning lives again.

A revolt rose from the decline of industrialization and making everything be mechanized.
And so began the Arts and Crafts movement : Which comprised skilled artists, architects, designers, craftsmen and writers.

The movement comprised of groups of skilled men in their principle - they feared industrialization was destroying the environment in which the traditional skills of the working man were undermined and took for granted.

Machines had sucked the pride, the undeniable skill and distinct design out of quality goods that were handmade before the industrialization took its toll, the craftsmen and artists were bitter because these were things that they could design way better with their hands.
They also believed that handcrafted objects were morally superior to those made by machines - this was because the objects did not come from men who wanted to do this they came from men who were slaved by the urban factories and dirty mills that those men worked in, the conditions were horrid and were no place for man.