Arts and Crafts Tours
Join Arts and Crafts Tours as we examine the roots of the Arts and Crafts 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.
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Burnes Jones' The Rose Bower, Buscot Park
William Morris and His Influence May 13 - 20, 2023
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.
Brantwood
Ruskin's Scottish Heritage September 16 - 24, 2023
The tour, developed alongside Peter Burman, begins in Glasgow with a stopover for a several nights at Marchmont House in the Borders.
Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight
Poets, Planners, Patrons and Dreamers: Utopian Planned Communities October 14 - 22, 2023
Over the course of this tour you’ll be introduced to planners, patrons, and dreamers who worked to make life better for workers in the 18th century.
Past Tours
For more than two decades, Arts & Crafts Tours has developed and offered tours to visit private homes and collections, examining objects that represent the acme of British design.
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.
From May 21 to May 30, this tour will take us to examine the works of the artists, designers, and craft workers of the Arts and Crafts Movement starting in London and traveling to the southwestern part of England. We'll visit St. Mary Magdalene, Paddington, Holy Trinity, Sloane Street. St. Martin's Blackheath, Chagford, Exeter, Truro Cathedral, and so many more!
The tour begins June 11 - June 20, 2022 and will be based on a series of articles on the Women of the Arts and Crafts Movement, examining the work of women who designed and created beautiful buildings and objects. We will be looking at work in museums and in private collections, as well as meeting with scholars, authors, collectors and current craftworkers and artists.
October 8 – 16, 2022 Our tour in the autumn of 2022 centres on two counties with a particular hold ...
This tour begins on Saturday, May 12, 2018 in Oxford where Morris met so many who changed his history and the future he had planned. It was here he met Edmund
This tour was organized to coincide with an exhibition at the Tate Britain titled Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde to which the Delaware Art Museum had loaned a number of paintings.
We begin at the St Bride Foundation just off of Fleet Street which is the museum of the history of printing with presses and materials that go back to the earliest days of printing, the mid-15th Century.
We are especially pleased that the American Friends of the Arts & Crafts in Chipping Campden has asked us to ...
While in Liverpool we will also spend a day at Port Sunlight the enlightened workers village built by Lord Lever ...
This will be the second tour to focus principally on libraries, private presses and the often hidden treasures of private houses and museum print rooms. The first tour concentrated on collections in London, Oxford, and the Cotswolds, but next year we will go further afield starting in Ireland then crossing the water to Scotland. It will be a tour full of visual and literary delights.
From Greenlaw, we head south stopping at Cragside, designed by Richard Norman Shaw who taught the three and then on ...
Mark your calendars and come along with us from September 10th to 19th, 2016 when in the company of Dr. James Macaulay, and several other noted guides we will examine some of Scotland’s most exciting sites and works and then head down to the glorious Lake District and examine some of the greatest homes and treasures of the Arts & Crafts Movement.
We begin with six days in Glasgow and will spend at least two days in the city examining most of the work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh as well as what preceded him. We’ll have a walking tour of the city, a tea at Ms. Cranston’s Tea Rooms, see work by Alexander “Greek” Thompson, and have dinner at the Glasgow Arts Club. And there will be time to visit Kelvingrove and its collection of paintings by The Glasgow Boys and see the Mackintosh House at the Hunterian Museum which also houses a major collection of works by Whistler. On the left is just some of Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh’s wonderful gesso work.