Outline of crafts

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?

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.
- 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

Ceramics and glass crafts

Ceramics and ceramic arts include:

Fiber and textile crafts

Flower crafts

Leatherwork

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

Houseware

Basket weaving (also called basketry, basket making)
Cooper

Fashion

Cloth

Dyeing and Printing
- Batik

Jewelry

Beadwork

Needlework

Paper crafts

Paper crafts include:

Wood and furniture crafts

Stone crafts

Metal crafts

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

General crafts concepts

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