> [!NOTE]+ Meta > Author:: [[David Pye]] > Reference:: Pye, David. 1968. __The Nature and Art of Workmanship__. Cambridge UP. > Date:: 1968 > Tags:: #warp > WeftLinks:: [[Aesthetic value of craft]] > Claim:: [[Claim - Handmade is beautiful]] > [!SUMMARY] Summary > The sensitivity to natural variation in materials gives aesthetic value of craft. ### Highlights "Free workmanship shows that, while design is a matter of imposing order on things, the intended results of design can often be achieved perfectly well without the workman being denied spontaneity and unstudied improvisation. This perhaps has special importance because our natural environment, and all naturally formed or grown things, show a similar spontaneity and individuality on a basis of order and uniformity. ==This characteristic aspect of nature, order permeated by individuality, was the aesthetic broth in which the human sensibility grew==. Whereas in the early days of civilization highly regulated workmanship seemed admirable because it was rare, difficult, and exceptional, that situation is now completely revered, and we might well try to make ourselves an environment which had more concord with our natural one. - David Pye __The Nature and Art of Workmanship__ Bethel Court, UK: Cambrium Press, 1995, p. 127