Against the Grain. The Sapperton group of craftsmen designers - ACE127.3

Countryside; commentary says that Ernest Gimson and the Barnsleys moved to the Cotswolds. Cirencester Park on the Bathurst Estate; Pinbury Park where they went to live. Woodworking – carpentry, joinery, marquetry. Photographs of the workshop. Chair bodger finishing chair. Examples of furniture made at Pinbury. Photograph of Ernest Barnsley and family, with Ernest Gimson and Sidney’s wife, Lucy. Dresser made by Sidney, which Edward Barnsley, Sidney and Lucy’s son, describes and comments on; photograph of it before re-modelling. Pinbury and surrounding countryside. Dry stone walling; details of stone buildings. Photograph of Sapperton valley and canal; remains of spoil heaps, now overgrown with trees; Chalford and Stroud industrial area; view showing railway, the growth of which meant competition from larger industrial centres. Morris’s words over about population movement and its consequences. Photographs of farm machinery. Knife-cleaning machine; metal tea caddy; catalogue of Gimson’s kitchen appliances; beam engine; Victorian designs, etc.