Handcrafted in America

Duration: 28

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1979

Creator: Will Lawson

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Traces the history of handcraft skills from America's early days through the age of industrialization and modernization by visiting Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan, established by Henry Ford to preserve these colonial crafts. Demonstrates the crafts of blacksmithing; carding, spinning and weaving; candle dipping; rug hooking; pottery; tinsmithing; coopering; and broom-making. Describes the changes in production of materials due to mechanization.

Complete Record: Traces the history of handcraft skills from America's early days through the age of industrialization and modernization by visiting Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan, established by Henry Ford to preserve these colonial crafts. Demonstrates the crafts of blacksmithing; carding, spinning and weaving; candle dipping; rug hooking; pottery; tinsmithing; coopering; and broom-making. Describes the changes in production of materials due to mechanization., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.