Arts and craft moment

The arts and crafts movement is an international movement which began in Britain in 1880 and spread to Europe, America and then finally in Japan where it's called mingei which is folk crafts. It was one of the most influenced and far feched design movements.
This movement was inspired by the writings of John Ruskin (1819-1900) and Augustus Pugin (1812-1852).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ruskin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus_Pugin

William Morris (1834-1896) an artist and writer led this movement. Here are some of his pieces of work.