| Arts and crafts is a whole group of activities and | | | | of skill and talent. Various community centers and |
| hobbies that are related to making various things | | | | schools run part time or vocational courses and |
| out of one's own hands and skills. The arts and | | | | workshops that offer to teach the basic levels of |
| crafts skills can be further sub divided into | | | | this skill within a short period of time. |
| traditional crafts, also known as the handicrafts | | | | The products of artistic production or creation |
| and the rest of the skills. Traditional crafts and | | | | that require a high degree of tacit knowledge, and |
| many other crafts have been practiced since | | | | technical skills are also known as crafts. These |
| ages, while new skill and crafts keep coming with | | | | crafts require specialized equipment and are |
| the growing time. | | | | constructed from materials with histories that |
| Modern era has seen the popularization of the | | | | exceed the boundaries of western art history. |
| traditional crafts and skills, which are widely | | | | These materials include ceramics, glass, textiles, |
| popular among the masses. The term arts and | | | | metal and wood. Often these crafts are produced |
| crafts also refer to the design movement known | | | | by a specific community. Generally there is a |
| as arts and craft movement propagated by | | | | variation of the basic design of these crafts when |
| William Morries and Edwin Lutyens. They strove | | | | produced by different communities. |
| to emulate the medieval craftsmen, who | | | | Lastly this wide term also includes the useful rural |
| experienced great joy in the quality of their work. | | | | crafts of the agricultural countryside. Thus the |
| These crafts can be learned by virtually anyone | | | | term "arts and crafts" encompasses a whole |
| with minimal skills, but to gain expertise and be a | | | | gamut of various skills and the product of these |
| professional craftsman, it requires a combination | | | | varied skills and craftsmanship. |