Outline of crafts

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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to crafts:

Craft – skill, involving in many cases but not always, practical arts. It may refer to a trade or particular art. Crafts as artistic practices are defined either by their relationship to functional or utilitarian products, such as sculptural forms in the vessel tradition, or by their use of such natural media as wood, clay, glass, textiles, and metal.

What are crafts?[edit]

A craft is a work of physical expression drawn from imagination or existing culture, largely by using hands. A craft is typically birthed by creativity and intentional design, through the application of skill(s)/ techniques and can extend across a wide range of areas from dance, embroidery to photography. Good 'craftsmanship' is marked by dexterity and experience.^[1][2]

Crafts as a whole can be described as all of the following:

• One of the arts – as an art form, crafts are an outlet of human expression, usually influenced by culture and which in turn help to change culture. Crafts are a physical manifestation of the internal human creative impulse and typically involves the use of hands to create the artform.
  • One of the visual arts – visual arts is a class of art forms, including painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking and others, that focus on the creation of works which are primarily visual in nature.

Types of crafts[edit]

Ceramics and glass crafts[edit]

Ceramics and ceramic arts include:

• Azulejo
• Cameo glass
• Earthenware
• Glass and glass art
  • Bubblegram
  • Glass beadmaking
  • Glass etching
  • Glassblowing
  • Glassmaking
  • Stained glass and lead came and copper foil glasswork
• Glassware
• Mosaic
• Porcelain
  • Bone china
• Pottery
• Stoneware

Fibre and textile crafts[edit]

See also Needlework below

• Bobbin lace
• Felting
• Knotting
  • Chinese knotting
  • Macramé
• Rope-making
• Rug making
• Spinning
• Stitch
• Tatting
• Weaving

Flower crafts[edit]

• Bouquet
• Floral Design
• Ikebana

Leatherwork[edit]

• Boiled leather making
• Leather carving
• Leather crafting (including dyeing, painting, and stamping)

Houseware[edit]

• Basket weaving (also called basketry, basket making)
• Cooper

Fashion[edit]

Cloth

• Dyeing and Printing
  • Batik

Jewelry

• Beadwork

Needlework[edit]

• Applique
• Crochet
• Embroidery
  • Canvas work
    • Bargello
    • Berlin wool work
    • Needlepoint
  • Counted-thread
    • Blackwork
    • Cross-stitch
    • Whitework
  • Surface embroidery
    • Brazilian embroidery
    • Candlewicking
    • Couching
    • Crewel embroidery
    • Goldwork
    • Ribbon embroidery
    • Sashiko
    • Stumpwork
• Knitting
• Nålebinding
• Needlelace
• Patchwork
• Quilting
  • Broderie perse
  • English paper piecing
  • Trapunto
• Sewing
• Spool knitting

Paper crafts[edit]

Paper crafts include:

• Bookbinding
• Calligraphy
• Cast paper
• Decoupage
• Iris folding
• Origami
• Paper embossing
• Paper marbling
• Paper model
• Papercutting
• Papermaking
• Papier-mâche
• Parchment craft
• Quilling
• Scrapbooking
• Paper burning art

Wood and furniture crafts[edit]

• Cabinet making
• Carpentry
• Intarsia
• Lacquer art
• Marquetry
• Spoon carving
• Timber framing
• Upholstery
• Wood burning
• Wood carving
• Woodturning
• Woodworking
  • Green woodworking

Stone crafts[edit]

• Flintknapping
• Mosaics and inlaying
• Stone carving
• Stonemasonry

Metal crafts[edit]

• Blacksmithing
• Casting
• Clockmaking
• Cloisonné
• Coppersmith
• Enamelling
• Farrier
• Jewellery
  • Goldsmith
  • Lapidary
• Knife making
• Locksmithing
• Metalworking - metalsmith
• Pewter
• metal wire art
• Silversmith
• Tinware - tinsmith
• Watchmaking
• Weaponsmith - sword making, armorer, gunsmith, fletching

General crafts concepts[edit]

• American craft
• Artisan
• Arts and crafts
• Handicraft
• Master craftsman
• Sloyd
• Studio craft
• Studio pottery

See also[edit]

• Rural crafts
• Stagecraft

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• American Craft Council
• Museum of Arts and Design