Arts and crafts
Arts and crafts describes a wide variety of activities involving making things with one's own hands. Arts and crafts is usually a hobby. Some crafts (art skills) have been practised since preshistoric times, others are more recent inventions. William Morris, John Ruskin and others promoted an "arts and crafts" movement in the late 19th century, which popularized the phrase.
Both children and adults enjoy arts and crafts. Children in schools may learn skills such as woodworking, wood carving, sewing, or making things with all sorts of material. Many community centres and schools have evening or day classes and workshops where one can learn arts and craft skills
Crafts involving textiles
Crafts involving wood, metal or clay
Crafts involving paper or canvas
- Bookbinding
- Calligraphy
- Cardmaking
- Card Modelling
- Collage
- Decoupage
- Embossing
- Iris Folding
- Marbling
- Origami
- Papercraft
- Papier-mâché
- Parchment craft
- Quilling or Paper Filigree
- Scrapbooking
- Stamping (with a rubber stamp)
- Sketching
Crafts involving plants
Other crafts
- Balloon animal
- Beadwork
- Doll making
- Dollhouse construction and furnishing
- Egg decorating
- Etching
- Glassblowing
- Lapidary
- Mosaics
- Stained glass
- Toy making
- Polymer clay
Arts And Crafts Media
Savisiipi handicrafts store in Pori, Finland
A handicraft Selling-Factory shop, Isfahan, Iran
Works Progress Administration, Crafts Class, US, 1935
At the Buell Children's Museum in Pueblo, Colorado, children and their guardians partake in "arts and crafts" (i.e. handicrafts)
Draw and color Bat-Trang ceramic
Handcrafted shoes from bamboo made by artists of West Bengal, India, at a fair in Kolkata
A handmade sofa set made from fibers extracted from bamboo at a fair in Kolkata, made by artists of West Bengal, India
Typical Filipino handmade brooms in a restaurant of Banaue Municipal Town
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