He continued this lifestyle with his companion Angela Ashe on the banks of the River Barrow in County Wexford, Ireland. Returning penniless to England, he lived in a trolley bus and on a Dutch sailing barge before settling on a five-acre smallholding in Suffolk to lead a self-sufficient life. As a young man, he travelled all over Africa and fought in Burma in World War II. John Seymour was an idealist - he had a vision of a better world where people aren't alienated from their labours. He doesn't go into great detail rather, he gives the basic facts of each forgotten labor of love, and it's up to readers to decide if it's a labor they want to undertake.
Since this book is intended as a comprehensive survey, don't expect to be an expert on, say, forging metal by reading Seymour's descriptions. Seymour respects what he calls "the discipline of natural materials," and he longs for a world free of "mass produced rubbish." Chapters cover an astonishing range: from clog making to spinning to canning. In the introduction he writes, "Are we justified in using articles, no matter how convenient it may be for us to use them, that we know were produced in conditions which bored and even stultified the human beings who had to make them?" This question led Seymour to the research that forms the foundation of the book: rediscovering natural ways of making tools, shoes, furniture, and a variety of other items using methods that follow the grain of wood or the idiosyncrasies of a piece of stone. Seymour is a utopian-he has a vision of a better world where people aren't alienated from their labors. OL24265710W Page_number_confidence 95.24 Pages 394 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20201126065644 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 574 Scandate 20201124212831 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780751327823 Tts_version 4.Originally published in two separate volumes ( The Forgotten Arts and Forgotten Household Crafts), this book brings under one cover the wisdom of John Seymour, a well-known thinker on matters of self-sufficiency, traditional arts, and voluntary simplicity. Urn:lcp:forgottenartscra0000seym:epub:86c3cc7a-5302-4bf9-bd60-ed80d1576f97 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier forgottenartscra0000seym Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t5x73726s Invoice 1652 Isbn 0751327824ĩ780751327823 Ocr tesseract 4.1.1 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9806 Ocr_module_version 0.0.7 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA19888 Openlibrary_edition National Trust book of forgotten household crafts National Trust Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA40002815 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 19:25:35 Associated-names Seymour, John, 1914-2004.
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