Arts and crafts comprise a whole host of activities and hobbies that are related to making things with one's 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.

Contents

• 1 Movement
• 2 Types of arts and crafts
  • 2.1 Crafts involving textiles
  • 2.2 Crafts involving wood, metal or clay
  • 2.3 Crafts involving paper or canvas
  • 2.4 Crafts involving plants
  • 2.5 Other crafts
• 3 See also
• 4 External links

Noun

arts and crafts pl. plural

1. All the handicrafts based upon making decorative and useful things manually

See also

• Arts and Crafts movement (on Wikipedia)

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• English nouns

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