ABSTRACT
The British artist and naturalist, Fred Miller, was also a widely published author on arts and crafts topics. The British Architect’s anonymous reviewer of the book was more conciliatory and even supportive of some of the ideas: ‘design and craftsmanship, [as] Mr Miller very properly maintains, are one, and should be indivisible. Mr. Miller has produced one that is singularly distasteful in format and that is equally lacking in literary distinction’. Miller published a number of books on woodworking, glass painting, and interior decoration and also wrote numerous articles on arts and crafts topics including many for The Girl’s Own Paper. Craftsmanship is the result of a series of well-directed single efforts, each representing so much physical and mental power. Design in its relation to a handicraft cannot be properly considered apart from the limitations of material and method of working.
