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:
- Azulejo
- Cameo glass
- Earthenware
- Glassware
- Mosaic
- Porcelain
- Pottery
- Stoneware
- Glass and glass art
- Glassmaking
- Glassblowing
- Glass etching
- Glass beadmaking
- Stained glass and lead came and copper foil glasswork
- Bubblegram
Fiber and textile crafts
Leatherwork
- Leather carving
- Leather crafting (including dyeing, painting, and stamping)
- Boiled leather making
Houseware
- Basket weaving (also called basketry, basket making)
- Cooper
Needlework
- Applique
- Crewel embroidery
- Crochet
- Cross-stitch
- Embroidery
- Ribbon Embroidery
- Knitting
- Needlepoint
- Patchwork
- Quilting
Paper crafts
Paper crafts include:
Wood and furniture crafts
- Marquetry
- Wood burning
- Wood carving
- Woodworking
- Lacquer art
- Carpentry
- Cabinet making
- Upholstery
- Intarsia
- Woodturning
- Green Woodworking
- Spoon Carving
- Kumiko
- Timber Framing
Stone crafts
- Mosaics and inlaying
- Stone carving
- Stonemasonry
- Flintknapping
- Letter carving on stone.
General crafts concepts
- American craft
- Artisan
- Arts and crafts
- Handicraft
- Master craftsman
- Studio pottery
- Sloyd
- Studio Craft
See also
External links
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