Handicraft facts for kids
Handicraft is a type of craft where people make things using only their hands or basic tools. The items are usually decorative and have a particular use. Usually the term refers to traditional methods of making things.
The items often have cultural or religious value. Things made by mass production or machines are not handicraft goods. Also, handicraft things are different from "arts and crafts" because they are meant to be used for something. Handicraft items are generally contrasted with mass production, things made on a factory production line.
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List of common handicrafts
There are almost as many variations on the theme of handicrafts as there are crafters with time on their hands, but they can be broken down into a number of categories:
Using textiles or leather
- Bagh prints
- Banner-making
- Calligraphy
- Canvas work
- Cross-stitch
- Crochet
- Darning
- Embroidery
- Felting
- Knitting
- Lace-making
- Embossing leather
- Lucet
- Macrame
- Millinery (hat making)
- Needlepoint
- Needlework generally
- Patchwork
- Quilting
- Ribbon embroidery
- Rug making
- Saddlemaking
- Sewing generally
- Shoe making (cordwaining)
- Silkscreening
- Spinning (textiles)
- String art
- Tapestry
- Tatting
- T-shirt art
- Weaving
Using wood, metal, clay, bone, horn, glass, or stone
- Bead work
- Bone carving (buffalo, camel, etc., as well as horn and
- Brass broidered coconut shell craft of Kerala
- Buffalo Horn Plates
- Carpentry
- Ceramic art generally
- Chip carving
- Copper arts
- Dollhouse construction and furnishing
- Doll making
- Enameling and Grisaille
- Fretwork
- Glass etching
- Glassblowing
- Jewelry design
- Lapidary
- Lath art
- Marquetry
- Metalwork
- Mosaics
- Pottery
- Puppet making
- Repoussé and chasing (embossing metal)
- Scale modeling
- Sculpture
- Stained glass
- Toy making
- Wood burning (pyrography)
- Wood carving
- Wood turning
- Woodworking generally
Using paper or canvas
- Altered books
- Artist trading cards
- Assemblage – collage in three dimensions
- Bookbinding
- Cardmaking
- Collage
- Décollage
- Decoupage
- Embossing paper
- Iris folding
- Origami or paper folding
- Paper craft generally
- Paper making
- Paper marbling
- Paper modeling, paper craft or card modeling
- Papier-mâché
- Parchment craft
- Pop-up books
- Quilling or paper filigree
- Rubber/acrylic stamping
- Scrapbooking
Using plants other than wood
- Basket weaving
- Corn dolly making
- Floral design
- Pressed flower craft
- Straw marquetry
Other
- Balloon animals
- Cake decorating
- Egg decorating
Images for kids
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Works Progress Administration, Crafts Class, 1935
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At the Buell Children's Museum in Pueblo, Colorado, children and their guardians partake in "arts and crafts" (i.e. handicrafts)
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Draw and color Bat-Trang-Ceramic
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Handcrafted shoes from bamboo made by artists of West Bengal, India, at a fair in Kolkata
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A hand made sofa set made from fibers extracted from bamboo at a fair in Kolkata. Made by artists of West Bengal, India.
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Making conical hats (nón lá) in Huế countryside, Vietnam
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Typical Filipino handmade brooms in a restaurant of Banaue Municipal Town
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Women's dress
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Handmade dolls featuring traditional attire in Afghanistan
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Handicrafts for sale in Mysore, India.
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See also
In Spanish: Artesanía para niños
