Outline of crafts
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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to crafts:
, glass, textiles, and metal.
What are crafts?
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
Ceramics and glass crafts
Ceramics and ceramic arts include:
- Azulejo
- Cameo glass
- Earthenware
- Glass and glass art
- Bubblegram
- Glass beadmaking
- Glass etching
- Glassblowing
- Glassmaking
- lead came and copper foil glasswork
- Glassware
- Mosaic
- Porcelain
- Pottery
- Stoneware
Fibre and textile crafts
See also Needlework below
- Bobbin lace
- Felting
- Knotting
- Rope-making
- Rug making
- Spinning
- Stitch
- Tatting
- Weaving
Flower crafts
Leatherwork
- Boiled leather making
- Leather carving
- Leather crafting (including dyeing, painting, and stamping)
Houseware
- Basket weaving (also called basketry, basket making)
- Cooper
Fashion
Cloth
Jewelry
Needlework
- Applique
- Crochet
- Embroidery
- Knitting
- Nålebinding
- Needlelace
- Patchwork
- Quilting
- Broderie perse
- English paper piecing
- Trapunto
- Sewing
- Spool knitting
Paper crafts
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
- Cabinet making
- Carpentry
- Intarsia
- Lacquer art
- Marquetry
- Spoon carving
- Timber framing
- Upholstery
- Wood burning
- Wood carving
- Woodturning
- Woodworking
Stone crafts
- Flintknapping
- inlaying
- Stone carving
- Stonemasonry
Metal crafts
- Blacksmithing
- Casting
- Clockmaking
- Cloisonné
- Coppersmith
- Enamelling
- Farrier
- Jewellery
- Knife making
- Locksmithing
- Metalworking - metalsmith
- Pewter
- metal wire art
- Silversmith
- Tinware - tinsmith
- Watchmaking
General crafts concepts
- American craft
- Artisan
- Arts and crafts
- Handicraft
- Master craftsman
- Sloyd
- Studio craft
- Studio pottery