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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> It is possible to write about craft from a bewildering number of perspectives. Art history anthropology. poetry sociology philosophy ergonomics: these are only some of the disciplinary frameworks which have laid claim to the subject. But only one type of literature is particular to craft-a genre that craft can call its own. This is the ‘how to’ text: instructional writing that attempts to convey in words that which can only be done by hand-to describe the specifics of process and material that actually constitute craft. How-to texts are often cited by craft professionals as proof of the subject’s lamentable anti- intellectual qualities and it’s true that they can sometimes make for dull reading. But they can also be fascinating and they have served a number of crucial roles. First and most obviously they are a means of knowledge transfer-a way of codifying and distributing the norms of practice. This function has become more not less important with the onset of modernity. Indeed it is only with the break down of the guild system that how-to writing comes into its own for the obvious reason that training (MP)