Crafts Information
A craft is a skill, especially involving practical arts. It may refer to a trade or particular art.
The term is often used as part of a longer word (and also in the plural). For example, a craft-brother is a fellow worker in a particular trade and a craft-guild is, historically, a guild of workers in the same trade. "Ringcraft" is part of a boxer's skill. See some further examples below.
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The Arts and Crafts Movement
A craft house Main article: Arts and Crafts MovementThe term craft is often used to describe the family of artistic practices within the decorative arts that traditionally are defined 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.
Studio crafts
Crafts practiced by independent artists working alone or in small groups are often referred to as studio craft.
Studio craft includes studio pottery, metal work, weaving, wood turning and other forms of wood working, glass blowing, and glass art.
Craft fairs
A craft fair is an organized event to display crafts by a number of exhibitors. There are craft shops where such goods are sold and craft communities, such as Craftster, where expertise is shared.
Craft as a classification
In English, to describe something as a craft is to describe it as lying somewhere between an art (which relies on talent) and a science (which relies on knowledge). In this sense, the English word craft is roughly equivalent to the ancient Greek term techne.
Folk art follows craft traditions, in contrast to fine art or "high art".
Related uses
Both Freemasonry and Wicca are known as 'The Craft' by their adherents.
Some video games allow crafting.
See also
Main article: Outline of crafts| Look up craft in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |
External links
Categories: Crafts | Decorative arts | Skills | Visual arts
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