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A Summary Of What Are Arts and Crafts All About?

By Nik Nasruddin N.M.

Arts and crafts comprise a whole host of activities and hobbies that are related to making things with one's own hands and skill. These can be sub-divided into handicrafts or "traditional crafts" (doing things the old way) and "the rest". Some crafts have been practised for centuries, while others are modern inventions, or popularisations of crafts which were originally practised in a very small geographic area.

Most crafts require a combination of skill, speed, and patience, but they can also be learnt on a more basic level by virtually anyone. Many community centres and schools run evening or day classes and workshops offering to teach basic craft skills in a short period of time. Many of these crafts become extremely popular for brief periods of time (a few months, or a few years), spreading rapidly among the crafting population as everyone emulates the first examples, then their popularity wanes until a later resurgence.

What is handicraft? Handicraft also known as craftwork or simply craft, is a type of work where useful and decorative devices are made completely by hand or using only simple tools. Usually the term is applied to traditional means of making goods. The individual artisanship of the items is a paramount criterion, such items often have cultural and/or religious significance. Items made by mass production or machines are not handicrafts.

Usually, what distinguishes the term handicraft from the frequently used category arts and crafts is a matter of intent: handicraft items are intended to be used, worn, et cetera, having a purpose beyond simple decoration. Handicrafts are generally considered more traditional work, created as a necessary part of daily life, while arts and crafts implies more of a hobby pursuit and a demonstration/perfection of a creative technique. In practical terms, the categories have a great deal of overlap.

Handicrafts include:

    *      assemblage – collage in three dimensions
    *      beadwork
    *    bone carving buffalo, camel, elephant bone carving.
    *      horn carving buffalo, rhino horn carving.
    *      cabinet making
    *      chip carving
    *      collage possibly involving seeds, fabric, paper, photographs and/or found objects
    *      crochet
    *      embossed aluminum or silver
    *      gardening
    *      knitting
    *      Lathart
    *      marquetry
    *      metalwork
    *      scale model
    *      mosaic
    *      needlework
    *      pottery and ceramics
    *      pressed flower craft — uses real flowers and leaves
    *      puppetry
    *      quilting - also reference Quilt and Art quilts
    *      sewing
    *      shoemaking
    *      spinning
    *      stained glass
    *      wood burning
    *      wood carving
    *      woodturning
    *      woodworking

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