Bibliography of Crafts:
General and Topical

  • Adamson, Glenn. The Invention of Craft, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013.

  • Adamson, Glenn. Craft: An American History, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021.

  • Adamson, Glenn. Crafting America: Artists and Objects, 1940s to Today. University of Arkansas Press, 2021.

  • Alayon, Erick. The Craft of Tattooing: The Beginner's Guide to Successful Tattooing. 2005.

  • Alfoldy, Sandra, Craftwashing: The Uses and Abuses of Craft in Popular Culture (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020).

  • Archbold, Annellen. (1980). The traditional arts and crafts of Warren County, Kentucky. Bowling Green, Ky., Bowling Green-Warren County Arts Commission.

  • Ayers, Dianne (2002). American Arts and Crafts Textiles. New York: Harry N. Abrams.

  • Banister, Manly Miles. The Craft of Bookbinding. New York: Dover Publications, 1993.

  • Boris, Eileen (1986). Art and Labor. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

  • Bronner, Simon J. (1986). "Folk Objects". In Oring, Elliott (ed.), Folk Groups And Folklore Genres: An Introduction. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press. pp. 199–223.

  • Bronner, Simon J. (1986a). Grasping Things: Folk Material Culture and Mass Society in America. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.

  • Broomfield, Sarah Stopenhagen, "Weaving Social Change: Berea College Fireside Industries and Reform in Appalachia" (2006). Textile Society of America Symposium Proceedings. 297.

  • Burisch, Nicole, and Anthea Black, The New Politics of the Handmade: Craft, Art and Design, co-edited with Anthea Black, London: Bloomsbury, 2020.

  • Cathers, David M.(1981). Furniture of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The New American Library, Inc.

  • __________. (2014). So Various Are The Forms It Assumes: American Arts & Crafts Furniture from the Two Red Roses Foundation. Marquand Books.

  • __________. These Humbler Metals: Arts and Crafts Metalwork from the Two Red Roses Foundation Collection. Marquand Books.

  • Cumming, Elizabeth (2006). Hand, Heart and Soul: The Arts and Crafts Movement in Scotland.

  • Birlinn. Cumming, Elizabeth; Kaplan, Wendy (1991). Arts & Crafts Movement. London: Thames & Hudson.

  • Denker, B., et al. (1996). The substance of style : perspectives on the American arts and crafts movement. Winterthur, Del., Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum.

  • Glassie, Henry. Material Culture. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1999.

  • Gross, J., et al. (1997). 20th century quilts, 1900-1970 : women make their mark :an exhibition of historic quilts developed in conjunction with the Museum of the American Quilter's Society, Paducah, Kentucky, March 22, 1997-June 29, 1997. Paducah, KY, The Society.

  • Gross, Jessica. "The Craft of Cooking." (Longreads Interview with Chris Kimball, June 2015).

  • Jennings, Hilary. (2012). “Towards a definition of heritage craft”. Creative & Cultural Skills, London.

  • Jones, Michael Owen. The Hand Made Object and Its Maker. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975).

  • Kaplan, Wendy (1987). The Art that Is Life: The Arts & Crafts Movement in America 1875-1920. New York: Little, Brown and Company.

  • La Follette, Mary Josephine. A Partial List of Craftsmen and Handicraft Groups in the United States. United States Extension Service, Division of Cooperative Extension (Minnesota, 1947).

  • Leahy, K. (2003). Anglo-Saxon crafts. Stroud, Tempus.

  • Lovelace, Joyce. “Craft: Seriously, What Does the Word Mean?” American Craft Magazine (October-November 2018).

  • MacCarthy, Fiona (1994). William Morris. Faber and Faber.

  • __________. (2009). "Morris, William (1834–1896), designer, author, and visionary socialist". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press.

  • Markowitz, Sally J. "The Distinction between Art and Craft." Journal of Aesthetic Education 28, no. 1 (1994): 55-70.

  • Maurer, B. B. (1975). Mountain heritage. Ripley, W. Va., Mountain State Art and Craft Fair.

  • Naylor, Gillian (1971). The Arts and Crafts Movement: a study of its sources, ideals and influence on design theory. London: Studio Vista.

  • Newton, James E. 1977. “Slave Artisans and Craftsmen: The Roots of Afro-American Art.” The Black Scholar 9, no. 3: 35-42

  • Parry, Linda (2005). Textiles of the Arts and Crafts Movement. London: Thames and Hudson.

  • Ponte, J. (2009). Fun and simple Southern state crafts : Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Arkansas. Berkeley Heights, NJ, Enslow Elementary.

  • Seymour, J. (1995). National Trust book of forgotten household crafts. London [u.a.], Dorling Kindersley.

  • Sink, Susan. Traditional Crafts and Craftsmanship in America: A Selected Bibliography. Publications of the American Folklife Center, No. 11, 1983.

  • Vartanian, Hrag. 2020. “Why Craft Matters.” American Craft Council.

  • Vlach, John Michael. 2008. “Rooted in Africa, Raised in America: The Traditional Arts and Crafts of African-Americans Across Five Centuries.” Freedom’s Story, TeacherServe®. National Humanities Center.

  • Wildman, Stephen (1998). Edward Burne-Jones, Victorian artist-dreamer. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art.