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The Arts and Crafts progress started mainly as a look for real and meaningful styles for the 19th century and as an answer to the miscellaneous revival of famous styles of the Victorian era and to "inexpressive" machine-made manufacture aided by the Industrial Revolution. Bearing in mind the instrument to be the source reason of all repetitive and ordinary evils, number of the protagonists of this association turned entirely away from the use of technology and towards handcraft, which tended to focus their productions in the hands of interested but contented consumers.

However, while the Arts and Crafts movement was in great part a result to industrialization, if looked at on the complete, it was neither anti-modern. Few of the European factions thought that machines were actually required, but they should only be used to lessen the tediousness of routine, repetitive tasks. At the same time, various Arts and Crafts leaders felt that things should as well be reasonable. The difference connecting quality production and 'demo' design, and the effort to populate the two, subject design debate at the turn of the twentieth century.