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Examine the Roots of the Movement Whether you have an interest in learning about the Arts and Crafts Movement or have a desire to see some of the most fascinating places, people, and artifacts of the era, join us on one or more of our upcoming tours and immerse yourself in history.
Upcoming Tours
Join Arts and Crafts Tours as we examine the roots of the movement traveling in small groups through of the United Kingdom, as well as Europe to see some of the most fascinating places, people, and artifacts of the era.
Poets, Planners and Dreamers: Utopian Planned Communities
Come to know more about several of the planners, patrons, and dreamers beginning in the 18th century who worked to make life better for workers. Among the planners are two who through their writings in The Craftsman Magazine were known to a number of people in the United States — Barry Parker and Raymond Unwin. Parker was born in Derbyshire and Unwin in Yorkshire and these cousins and partners were members of the Northern Art Workers Guild and deeply involved in work on many of the villages and communities we will visit.
Art and Soul: The Soul of the Arts and Crafts Movement
Our October tour will take us to many of their masterpieces as well as some marvelous small chapels and churches throughout the country such as the glorious St Andrew’s Roker often called the Cathedral of the Arts and Crafts by J.D Sedding who also designed Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Street in London. And in London the magnificent All Saints, Margaret Street by William Butterfield.
The Women of the Arts and Crafts Movement
Examine the work of women who designed and created beautiful buildings and objects. The tour will be based on the series of articles we are now writing and collecting and which can be seen on our website. On this tour, we will be looking at work in museums and in private collections. As always you will meet and talk with scholars, authors, collectors and current craftworkers and artists.
Over 25 years of tours
For more than two decades Arts & Crafts Tours has developed and offered visits to private homes and collections to examine objects that represent the acme of British design.
Take a look at our past tours of the Arts and Crafts Movement that led us to become the award-winning tour operator we are today.
The Women of the Arts and Crafts Movement
Women have been making great accomplishments since the dawn of the Arts and Crafts Movement in Victorian England. They learned how to paint gorgeous artwork, design embroidery, decorate pottery, create beautiful gardens and buildings, work with stained glass and sculpting, and so much more. Enjoy this special series as we acknowledge and celebrate the Women of the Arts and Crafts Movement.
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William Morris and His Influence on the Arts and Crafts Movement
Our tour will trace many of the events and locations associated with Morris’s hugely prolific career, while also examining his fruitful collaborations with many of the leading artists, designers and architects of his time and his subsequent influence on later craft-workers. We begin in London, where Morris spent the greater part of his life and where outstanding examples of his work can be seen at the Victoria & Albert Museum and at Holy Trinity Church, Chelsea.