In those days no man was painter only or architect only; an all-round knowledge of both arts and crafts was desired by every ambitious youth who was attracted by the wish to make beautiful things, and Giotto was a universal master.
Cutting Circular Holes in Thin Sheet Metal [35] In arts and crafts work, occasion often arises to cut a perfectly circular hole in sheet copper or brass.
Simple Arts and Crafts Leather Work [168] Very interesting and useful pieces of leather work can be done with nothing more for equipment than a cup pointed nail set such as carpenter use, and a nut pick.
North and east and west of the municipal centre, the Maison aux Piliers, on the Place de Grève, was a maze of streets filled with the various crafts of Paris.
The judicial duel in civil cases was forbidden; the Royal Watch instituted to police the streets of Paris; the charters of the hundred crafts of Paris were confirmed and many privileges granted to the great trade guilds.
And especially did the crafts built in imitation of something that had floated down from a previous generation come to quick disaster.
Their education in all the manly arts and crafts of the backwoodsman fitted them very well for the work they had to do.
In other words, the art element in both these crafts only becomes prominent at a stage when the actual preparation of the glass is completed.
One point is clear: the profession of glass-worker was at all times in France open to the nobility, and this, of course, was not the case with other crafts and trades.
These Sermons for Miners[194] are a strange mixture of what to us seem fantastic analogies drawn from the Bible, with matter of an eminently practical nature relating to the crafts and occupations of his audience.
As charnel scarn parades in light-- Unfathomed crafts rayed in wowed attire.
In after-years we may have perhaps a newer and more daring Arts and Crafts Exhibition.
An abiding testimony to his tremendous personal influence in the æsthetic world is the vitality and recurrence of the Arts and Crafts Exhibitions, which are steeped in his personality like a chapel in that of a saint.
It was the 3d of March, before any Black River crafts arrived, and they were the only ones then provided.
The superintendant was entirely deceived by the Indians, in the number of crafts and men; and still more so, in point of time.
But the control of the awkward crafts was no simple matter.
The light little crafts sped swiftly over the water, and keeping well together, not long afterward began to approach Alexandria Bay.
He taught himself crafts necessary to invent and patent in 1769 a spinning frame worked by a water wheel, which he called a" water frame".
All crafts are like necklaces strung on a string, i.
The Republic sighed for peace, the crafts for quietness; but the immense liabilities incurred by many costly military enterprises had to be met.
If the spirit of the Greeks inspired the physical prowess of the Romans, the enlightenment of the Florentines brought forth the renascence of the arts and crafts of Italy and of the world.
Kennedy thanked him for his courtesy, and we left apparently on the best of terms both with Crafts and his assistant.
They had a grandfather who was a manic depressive on the Atherton side," said Crafts slowly.
Crafts always said it was a case of eugenics against euthenics," remarked Atherton, "of birth against environment.
Crafts was the next to appear, expressing surprise at meeting us, and I thought a bit annoyed, for he mentioned that it had been with reluctance that he had had to give up some work he had planned for the evening.
Crafts on some point, and, noticing it, he seemed to be in the position both of explaining his contention to us and of defending it before his fair assistant.
He had been overjoyed because, long before Crafts had told him, he had found out that he loved her deeply.
As Crafts spoke he moved a key, and I suspected that it was in order to catch the words.
Ah, said the king, since ye know of your adventure, purvey for it, and put away by your crafts that misadventure.
Then the Lady of the Lake that was alway friendly to King Arthur, she understood by her subtlecrafts that King Arthur was like to be destroyed.
This counsel was not so privily kept but it was understood; for they were but young both, and tender of age, and had not used none such crafts to-fore.
So on a time he told King Arthur that he should not dure long, but for all his crafts he should be put in the earth quick.
And so she let ordain by her subtle crafts that they had not their intents neither with other, as in their delights, until they were married.
Queen Guenever sent her another letter, and bade her be of good cheer, for she should have joy after sorrow, for Sir Tristram was so noble a knight called, that by crafts of sorcery ladies would make such noble men to wed them.
O Merlin, said Arthur, here hadst thou been slain for all thycrafts had I not been.
Now I suppose, said Accolon, she hath made all these crafts and enchantments for this battle.
Exert your utmost endeavour that ye may develop such crafts and undertakings that everyone, whether young or old, may benefit therefrom.
Those who followed the artistic crafts declared open war against everything pedestrian and tedious.
Through his initiative the whole province of the artistic crafts was brought under observation from a pictorial point of view.
These reed crafts sometimes assume the form of flat rafts, while at other times they resemble canoes.
Studying the productions of the native crafts in their relation to colour, he dreamed of making pictures as variegated as rugs and vases.
For the most part all these early crafts were limited to simple designs, wholly obvious to the most rudimentary mind.
Certain of the French arts and crafts have never recovered from the effects of the Revolution.
They remodelled their arts and crafts upon those of the classical periods, introduced again the obsolete offices and titles of those early times, and organised the government upon the old lines.
The population dwindled, the arts and crafts were neglected, the fields untilled.
In the Casa de Mesa is a room in the design of the Mudéjares, the reconciled Moors, who remained and followed their crafts in Spain, after the reconquest of the country by the Spaniards.
Partly as a protest against this state of things, and partly to concentrate the awakened feeling for beauty in the accessories of life, the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society commenced their work.
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.
It was with the object of giving some visible expression to these views that the Exhibitions of the Arts and Crafts Society were organised.
Mr. Crane has put forward the aims of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society as an Exhibition Society, therefore I need not enlarge upon that phase of this book.
In putting this principle before the public, the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society has availed itself from the first of both lecture and essay, as well as the display of examples.
Even at this time the members of craftswere grouped together, as witness Candlewright Street, Milk Street, and the Shambles.
The mayor with all thecrafts of the city, in 1415, rode out thus far to meet Henry V.
Gervase was one of the most important personalities in twelfth-century London, and it is not commonly realised that members of the crafts so early held power.
Throughout these times the armourer's and the gilder's crafts are found in closest union; just as the armourer's craft would often alternate with that of the goldsmith or the silversmith.
A similar sketch may be applied to other arts and crafts of Spain--particularly furniture and architecture.
Romanic influence is abundant in this triptych, showing that, although exposed to constant changes from abroad, the Spanish mediaeval crafts adhered upon the whole with singular tenacity to primitive tradition.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "crafts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
