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The nature and art of workmanship
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The nature and art of workmanship

by David Pye

An exploration of the relationship between skill, design and manufacture. The text proposes a theory of making based on the concepts of risk and certainty in workmanship, illustrated with photographs of turned and carved wooden vessels.

Accession 17910 ISBN — Publisher Cambridge University Press
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