Living Crafts, Historic Tools: The Craftspeople & Collections of the Landis Valley Museum

This book celebrates the hand tool as a medium of expression and salutes those who wield it with skillful pride. Simple but resourceful, each tool was a beautiful, clever marriage of form and function, endowed with a life of its own, uniquely forged and perfectly suited for its purpose. Through hundreds of images of these elegantly purposeful hand tools, the history of American handcraft is traced.