All this hand-work was reckoned according to customary standards as day-work and week-work.
Although the Columbian is not so much in demand as the Albion, it is still employed for heavy hand-work because of its greater stability and power.
His handiwork was of a high standard and Eric used traditional cobbling techniques such as hand stitching and hot waxing.
In house decoration of all kinds - furniture, wall-papers and hangings (which he preferred to paper), carpet-weaving, and the painting of glass and tiles, needlework, tapestry - he formed a school which was dominated by his protest against commercialism and his assertion of the necessity for natural decoration and pure colour, produced by hand work and inspired by a passion for beauty irrespective of cheapness or quickness of manufacture (see Arts And Crafts).
If so, you are in luck because you can look at their handiwork first hand before placing an order.
