Pleasure in creation.

Focuses on the Arts and Crafts movement in America, born in response to the low quality of machine-made goods, which began in isolated workshops and spread to the public, preaching the values of the simple, the useful and the handmade. History of the arts and crafts movement; Examples of historic arts and crafts objects; Exhibition that the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts organized to celebrate the 100th anniversary of arts and crafts; British origins with art critic John Ruskin and designer William Morris; Wallpapers, chairs, carpets and tapestries that Morris designed; Morris' notion that art should be useful and incorporated into everyday activity; Americanization of the arts and crafts movement through Elbert Hubbard and Gustav Stickley; Roycroft community in New York that Hubbard dedicated to printing books and making furniture; Workshop that Stickley set up in Eastwood, New York to develop "Craftsman" furniture; Self-promotion by Stickley and Hubbard; Description of a typical Stickley chair; Development of arts and crafts societies in Boston, Chicago, and New York; How metalwork paid homage to the Middle Ages; Pottery styles, including from the Rookwood Pottery Company of Ohio; Development of craft as therapy, including at the Marblehead Pottery of Massachusetts; End of the movement and the designs of Frank Lloyd Wright.