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By the early 19th century artists and their patrons had persuaded society that art really consisted of the Fine Arts which stimulated an emotional response and even edified behavior, and craft which had more mundane ambitions and consequences. This concept remains powerful today. Hence David Regester’s rueful comment: “the idea that the spindle turner [typically a producer of useful turnings] is an inferior beast to the bowl turner [a supposed creator of Fine Art]”.⁵ Not surprisingly, fewer aspire to be an “inferior beast”.