Living Crafts, Historic ToolsWhat we celebrate today as crafts were once the means of everyday manufacture. The craftsman's product was not quaint, archaic, or merely decorativeit was essential. The tools that created these necessities speak to the early American spirit of ingenuity. Simple but resourceful, each tool was a beautiful, clever marriage of form and function, endowed with a life of its own, uniquely forged and perfectly suited for its purpose. The Landis Valley