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.

[edit] Types of crafts

Main articles: Craft, Handicraft, and Arts and crafts

[edit] Ceramics and glass crafts

Ceramics and ceramic arts include:

[edit] Fiber and textile crafts

[edit] Flower crafts

[edit] Leatherwork

Leather carving –
Leather crafting (incluiding dying, painting, and stamping) –
Boiled leather making

[edit] Mixed Media

Beadwork –
Basket weaving (also called basketry, basket making, or basketmaking) –
Batik –
Cooper –
Scrapbooking –

[edit] Needlework

[edit] Paper crafts

Paper crafts include:

[edit] Wood and furniture crafts

[edit] Stone crafts

Mosaics and inlaying
Stone carving –
Stonemasonry –
Flintknapping –
Letter carving on stone.

[edit] Metal crafts

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

[edit] General crafts concepts

[edit] See also

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