Arts  & Crafts

Arts and Crafts was a movement which was initially developed in England but was then later popularised in Europe and North America between 1880 and later emerging in Japan in the 1920s. The three main people who inspired the movement were John Ruskin, Augustus Pugin, and William Morris. Many Arts and Crafts designs often had plural patterns of some sort, either had a lot of nature within it or something of that sort, this is probably why Art Nouveau advocated nature as the true source of all good designs. The Movement took its name from the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society. 

Most patterns or designs within the style often consist of traditional craftsmanship using simple forms and it often used medieval, romantic or folk styles of decoration. 

Examples of Arts and Crafts:







As displayed within the images, the floral pattern is very distinct. Similarly to Art Nouveau, the Arts and Crafts movement was greatly influenced by nature but unlike art Nouveau with its whiplash curves, Arts and Crafts consist of curves which are quite rectilinear. The decorative details on objects such as such as vases and tiles were hand crafted.