Outline of crafts explained

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?

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

See main article: Craft and Handicraft.

Ceramics and glass crafts

Ceramics and ceramic arts include:

Fibre and textile crafts

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

Dyeing and Printing

Jewelry

Beadwork

Needlework

Paper crafts

Paper crafts include:

Wood and furniture crafts

Stone crafts

Metal crafts

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