Editing Weaving (section)

===Craft weavers===
[[File:Weavers Loom.jpg|thumb|Pedal powered loom used by Skye Weavers, Isle of Skye, Scotland]]
[[Arts and Crafts Movement|Arts and Crafts]] was an international design philosophy that originated in England<ref name=triggs>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924032649828 |quote=Chapters in the History of the Arts and Crafts Movement. |first=Oscar Lovell |last=Triggs |title=Chapters in the History of the Arts and Crafts Movement |publisher=Bohemia Guild of the Industrial Art League |year=1902 |access-date=2010-08-28 }}</ref> and flourished between 1860 and 1910 (especially the second half of that period), continuing its influence until the 1930s.<ref name="grove"/> Instigated by the artist and writer [[William Morris]] (1834–1896) during the 1860s<ref name=triggs/> and inspired by the writings of [[John Ruskin]] (1819–1900), it had its earliest and most complete development in the British Isles<ref name="grove">{{Cite book |title=The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts, Volume 1 |isbn=978-0-19-518948-3 |first=Gordon |last=Campbell |publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2006 }}</ref> but spread to Europe and North America.<ref>{{cite book |author1=Kaplan, Wendy |author2=Crawford, Alan |title=The Arts & Crafts Movement in Europe & America: Design for the Modern World |publisher=Los Angeles County Museum of Art |date=2004}}</ref> It was largely a reaction against mechanisation and the philosophy advocated of traditional craftsmanship using simple forms and often medieval, romantic or folk styles of decoration. Handweaving was highly regarded and taken up as a [[decorative art]].