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... detail . With regard to the existence of actual guilds in early Buddhist times , the Jātakas give us but little information . The craftsmen associated in villages no doubt had their own laws and customs , tantamount to guild regulations ...
... detail . With regard to the existence of actual guilds in early Buddhist times , the Jātakas give us but little information . The craftsmen associated in villages no doubt had their own laws and customs , tantamount to guild regulations ...
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... detail the organisation of the king's craftsmen , that is the State craftsmen , in Ceylon , as it existed up to the day on which the British Governor replaced the Kandyan king . It must be first understood that the organisation of ...
... detail the organisation of the king's craftsmen , that is the State craftsmen , in Ceylon , as it existed up to the day on which the British Governor replaced the Kandyan king . It must be first understood that the organisation of ...
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... detail of their appearance to the eye . Their inward inspiration upon which the Indian artist is taught to rely , appearing like the still small voice of a god , that god was conceived of as Visvakarma . He may be thought of as that ...
... detail of their appearance to the eye . Their inward inspiration upon which the Indian artist is taught to rely , appearing like the still small voice of a god , that god was conceived of as Visvakarma . He may be thought of as that ...
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... detail . It is often assumed that the skill of the " hereditary craftsman " depends upon the direct inheritance of his father's individual skill . But this skill is an acquired character , and it is almost universally agreed by ...
... detail . It is often assumed that the skill of the " hereditary craftsman " depends upon the direct inheritance of his father's individual skill . But this skill is an acquired character , and it is almost universally agreed by ...
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... detail . But a brief account of the system as surviving in Ceylon , almost to the present * See A. J. Penty , " Restoration of the Guild System " ; and C. R. Ashbee , " Craftsmanship in Competitive Industry , " Campden , 1908 . THE ...
... detail . But a brief account of the system as surviving in Ceylon , almost to the present * See A. J. Penty , " Restoration of the Guild System " ; and C. R. Ashbee , " Craftsmanship in Competitive Industry , " Campden , 1908 . THE ...
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Ahmedabad APPENDIX art and craft artisans artists Arts of India beautiful BHIKKU blacksmith Brahmans Buddha Buddhist builders building C. R. ASHBEE carpenter caste century ceremony Ceylon cloth colour competition Coomaraswamy CRAFT GUILDS craftsmanship CRAFTSMEN OF SIAM cultivated culture decorated departmental district duties E. B. Havell East English festival FEUDAL CRAFTSMEN FOREWORD give gold goldsmith handicrafts HEARN ON CRAFT Heraclitus HEREDITARY CRAFTSMAN Hindu Indian Art Indian craftsman Indian village Industrial Arts industrial machinery inscription Japan Jātaka Kabir Panth kammalar Kandy Kandyan king king's kiriya of land Kottal-badde labour LAFCADIO HEARN Mahavamsa MARCO POLO master mediæval medieval merchant Mitrānanda organisation ornament painter painting palace payment person piece plaster present pupil Rāja Rāmāyana regulation religious royal armoury Sanskrit servants Sinhalese Sir George Birdwood Sir George Watt skill Smith society spiritual tenant things trade guilds traditional vihāra village community VILLAGE POTTER Visvakarma wages Western
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Page 71 - Waste not your time in idleness and indolence, and occupy yourselves with that which will profit yourselves and others beside yourself.
Page 24 - There are many that hate painting ; but such men I dislike. It appears to me as if a painter had quite peculiar means of recognizing God ; for a painter in sketching anything that has life, and in devising its limbs, one after the other, must come to feel that he cannot bestow individuality upon his work, and is thus forced to think of God, the Giver of life, and will thus increase in knowledge.
Page 104 - India, and who, for all the marvellous tissues and embroidery they have wrought, have polluted no rivers, deformed no pleasing prospects, nor poisoned any air ; whose skill and individuality the training of countless generations has developed to the highest...
Page 99 - ... remain in full municipal vigour all over the peninsula. Scythian, Greek, Saracen, Afghan, Mongol, and Maratha have come down from its mountains, and Portuguese, Dutch, English, French, and Dane up out of its seas, and set up their successive dominations in the land ; but the religious trades-union villages have remained as little affected by their coming and going as a rock by the rising and falling of the tide...
Page 101 - Europe to understand what things may be done by machinery, and what must be done by hand-work, if art is of the slightest consideration in the matter. But if, owing to the operation of certain economic causes, machinery were to be gradually introduced into India for the manufacture of its great traditional handicrafts, there would ensue an industrial revolution which, if not directed...
Page 102 - ... gold and silver earrings, and round tires like the moon, bracelets and tablets and nose-rings, and tinkling ornaments for the feet, taking his designs from the fruits and flowers around him, or from the traditional forms represented in the paintings and carvings of the great temple, which rises over the grove of mangoes and palms at the end of the street above the lotus-covered village tank.
Page 58 - ... is to be beaten with the great Maul, he holds it, still sitting upon his Stool, and they must hammer it themselves, he only with his little Hammer knocking it sometimes into fashion. And if it be any thing to be filed, he makes them go themselves and grind it upon a Stone, that his labour of fileing may be the less ; and when they have done it as well as they can, he goes over it again with his file and finisheth it. That which makes these Smiths thus stately is, because the Towns People are...
Page 17 - Tanjore an agreement by which the entire guild binds itself to a contract executed on its behalf by an individual member of the guild for the supply of oil in perpetuity for a sacred lamp. The inscription runs as follows : ' We, all the following shepherds of this village . . . agree to become security for Eran Sattan, a shepherd of this village, (who) had received 90 ewes of this temple in order to supply ghl for burning one perpetual lamp.