Women Art Workers and the Arts and Crafts Movement The Speculating Rook the historical precedents that led

the historical precedents that led us here and why hand skills are crucial in education and for lifelong learning

Becca moved to Sheffield and continues to work out of Yorkshire Artspace

Each stoneware pin is screen-printed by hand using coloured slip

Sid White Jones graduated with First Class Honours in BA Photography from Norwich University of the Arts and has since exhibited at venues including Kettle’s Yard

Women Art Workers and the Arts and Crafts Movement The Speculating Rook the historical precedents that ledThis book constitutes the first comprehensive history of the network of women who worked at the heart of the English Arts and Crafts movement from the 1870s to the 1930s. Challenging the long standing assumption that the Arts and Crafts simply revolved around celebrated male designers like William Morris, it instead offers a new social and cultural account of the movement, which simultaneously reveals the breadth of the imprint of women art workers