Against the Grain

Synopsis: Documentary about the lives of Ernest Gimson, Ernest Barnsley and Sidney Barnsley three young British architects, who, in the early 1890s, were inspired by the ideas of William Morris to settle in the village of Sapperton in the Cotswolds where they pursued their crafts of building and restoring houses, designing and making furniture "free from commercialism and the monotony of machine production". The film looks at their achievements in the context of the Arts and Crafts Movement and the late Victorian urge to reject the modern world and return to a pre-industrial society. Filmed on location in the Cotswolds and in Leicester, AGAINST THE GRAIN includes interviews with relatives and friends of the Sapperton Group, among them Edward Barnsley, Donald Gimson, Miss Nancy Jewson and Major A. Biddulph.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Year of release: 1983
Subjects: Crafts; History
Keywords: Arts and Crafts movement; communal living; crafts, design & technology; furniture design; industrialisation; Morris, William; History of Great Britain

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