About a week ago now, we taught a book arts workshop in East Aurora
New York at the Roycroft Campus. It was an honor to work in this place that was
the home to so much creativity and art at the turn of the twentieth century.
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| The Power House building where our workshop was held |
Here is a bit about the Roycroft Campus: Dard Hunter, the father of the revival of hand
papermaking in America started his artistic career as a Roycrofter. Elbert
Hubbard founded Roycroft, an Arts and Crafts movement community, in 1895.
Inspired by a visit with William Morris who had founded the Kelmscott Press in
1891, as a way to produce books by traditional methods using printing
technology and styles of the 15th century. Morris and his fellow artists went
on to design and produce products such as wallpaper, textiles, furniture and
glassware. Hubbard started his own private press, the Roycroft Press, and then
developed the Roycroft community. The "Roycrofters" produced handsome and
sometimes eccentric books printed on handmade paper, and operated a fine
bindery, two magazines (The Philistine
was bound in brown butcher paper and full of satire. Hubbard claimed the cover
was butcher paper because: "There is meat inside."), and shops
producing furniture, stained glass, limp suede and hammered copper goods
in the uniquely American "Arts and Crafts" style, a decorative arts
design that emphasizes spare, clean lines and simplicity of design.
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| Our class in the Power House building |
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| Peter posing as a Roycroft printer |
As we were leaving town I stopped for gas. A woman came up
to me asking, “Are you the gypsies? Three wagons are supposed to be arriving.
Where are the others?” I am not sure what that was about. Still pumping gas a
fellow came up to admire the wagon. He said he had lived on boats in San Francisco, and
painted school busses in Vermont at Bread and Puppet, and it turned out he was Daniel Roelofs, a great grandson of Elbert Hubbard and he ran an organic farm called Arden Farm located outside of town. I gave
him a tour of the wagon and he gave me a beautiful bunch of kale for the road.
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