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Roycroft was a reformist community of craft workers and artists which formed part of the Arts and Crafts movement in the United States. Elbert Hubbard founded the community in 1895 in the village of East Aurora, Erie County, New York, near Buffalo. Participants were known as Roycrofters. The work and philosophy of the group, often referred to as the Roycroft movement, had a strong influence on the development of American architecture and design in the early 20th century. ==History== The name "Roycroft" was chosen after the printers, Samuel and Thomas Roycroft, who made books in London from about 1650–1690. And beyond this, the word ''roycroft'' had a special significance to Elbert Hubbard, meaning ''King's Craft''. In guilds of early modern Europe, king's craftsmen were guild members who had achieved a high degree of skill and therefore made things for the King. The Roycroft insignia was borrowed from the monk Cassiodorus, a 13th-century bookbinder and illuminator. Elbert Hubbard had been influenced by the ideas of William Morris on a visit to England. He was unable to find a publisher for his book ''Little Journeys'', so inspired by Morris's Kelmscott Press, decided to set up his own private press to print the book himself, founding Roycroft Press. His championing of the Arts and Crafts approach attracted a number of visiting craftspeople to East Aurora, and they formed a community of printers, furniture makers, metalsmiths, leathersmiths, and bookbinders. A quotation from John Ruskin formed the Roycroft "creed": A belief in working with the head, hand and heart and mixing enough play with the work so that every task is pleasurable and makes for health and happiness. The inspirational leadership of Hubbard attracted a group of almost 500 people by 1910, and millions more knew of him through his essay ''A Message to Garcia''. In 1915 Hubbard and his wife, noted suffragist Alice Moore Hubbard, died in the sinking of RMS ''Lusitania'', and the Roycroft community went into a gradual decline. Following Elbert's death, his son Bert took over the business. In attempts to keep his father's business afloat, Bert proposed selling Roycroft’s furniture through major retailers. Sears & Roebuck eventually agreed to carry the furniture, but this was only a short lived success.〔("Elbert Hubbard - The Man." ) September 28, 2010.〕 Fourteen original Roycroft buildings are located in the area of South Grove and Main Street in East Aurora. Known as the "Roycroft Campus", this rare survival of an art colony was awarded National Historic Landmark status in 1986.〔 The Elbert Hubbard Roycroft Museum, housed in the George and Gladys Scheidemantel House, in East Aurora is the main collection and research centre for the work of the Roycrofters. Image:Roycrofttownhall.JPG|Front of the Town Hall building Image:Roycroftrestaurant.JPG|Roycroft Inn & Restaurant Image:RoycroftTownHall.JPG|Side of the Town Hall building Image:RoycroftCrest.jpg|Crest of the Roycroft Image:RoycroftCampusWelcome.jpg|Roycroft Campus welcome sign Image:RoycroftSign.JPG|Sign about Elbert Hubbard Image:Roycroftsign2.jpg|Sign with Roycroft crest and lettering 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Roycroft」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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