ABSTRACT
This chapter establish a close and intimate relationship with it as with a person, going so deeply that one finds an understanding which does in fact illuminate everything else. This is the essential experience of craftsmanship. A sound pre–craft training in free imaginative work and in practical knowledge of the basic materials, clay, wool, wood, etc., has been given, the work of the craft teacher in the secondary stages will be much easier. The group of crafts which are practised with materials in their raw state and taken right through to the finished article, are work in wood (sometimes including basketry), in wool from the fleece (sometimes including rugs), in clay, metal, stone. The way the craftsman sets about one small job—but it is in essence the way any craftsman sets about any job, drawing on his knowledge of his materials, the process of making and his knowledge of human beings, their physique and their habits and their associations.
