 He was personally involved in manufacture as well as design, which was the hallmark of the Arts and Crafts movement.Ruskin had argued that the separation of the intellectual act of design from the manual act of physical creation was both socially and aesthetically damaging.Morris further developed this idea, insisting that no work should be carried out in his workshops before he had personally mastered the appropriate techniques and materials, arguing that "without dignified, creative human occupation people became disconnected from life".