Museographs: Shaker Design: The History Publication of World Culture
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Best-known as an eighteenth-century utopian religious community, and often liken to the Amish, few are aware of the many accomplishments that are distinctly Shaker. Shakers have excelled as architects and chemists, craftsmen and inventors. During a twenty-five-year heyday they had a hand in everything from circular saws to textiles, decorative boxes, and home furnishings. Museographs' Shaker Design explores the depth of some of their many achievements. It preserves the integrity and uniqueness of the community dispelling misconceptions about these God-fearing few.
A special focus on the dearly loved and ever recognizable Shaker chair celebrates technical precision, beauty and variety that stands as a testament to God's presence in both Shaker lifestyle and in Shaker art.
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Shaker Design
[The Shakers] recognized no justifiable difference in the quality of workmanship for any object, no gradations in the importance of the task. All must be done equally well whether it was the laying of a stone floor in the cellar, the making of closet doors in the attic, or the building of a meetinghouse. The work required nothing less than all the skill of the workers.
—Charles Sheeler
Shakers near Lebanon, State of New York, their mode of worship.
Collection of Hancock Shaker Village, Inc., Pittsfield, Massachusetts
The drawing represents a public worship service. Probably produced by the Kellogg Brothers circa 1850-1851.
Historic Overview
Who Were the Shakers?
The Shakers were America’s largest and best-known communal utopian society. Their real name was the United Society of Believers in the First and Second Appearance of Christ, but they were known as Shakers because of the rigorous dances that were a part of their religious worship. Begun in the latter part of the eighteenth century, Shakerism reached its height in 1840 having almost 6,000 believers in villages stretching from Maine to Kentucky.
Founded by an illiterate English factory worker named Ann Lee (known as Mother Ann), the Shakers believed that God’s nature was dual, incorporating both masculine and feminine qualities. Based on this belief, that all of God’s children were equal, the Shakers practiced social, economic and spiritual equality seventy-five years before the emancipation of slaves and one hundred and fifty years before the women’s vote. They were among the first pacifists and were