Handicrafts

A mosaic () is a pattern or image made of small regular or irregular pieces of colored stone, glass or ceramic, held in place by plaster/mortar, and covering a surface. Mosaics are often used as floor and wall decoration, and were particularly popular in the Ancient Roman world.

thumb|upright|Batik craftswomen in [[Java, Indonesia]] thumb|Savisiipi handicrafts store in Pori, Finland right|thumb|A handicraft Selling-Factory shop, Isfahan, Iran thumb|Artesanato Mineiro

Japanese-created Russian cultural icon: set of wooden dolls of decreasing size placed one inside another

upright=1.3|thumb|''Sewing Fisherman's Wife'' by Anna Ancher, 1890

thumb|upright=1.2|Person knitting thumb|upright=1.2|Video description of knitting a sock and the two basic stitches: knit and purl

thumb|Detail of a Portuguese crocheted tablecloth, about 1970 Crochet (; ) is a process of creating textiles by using a crochet hook to interlock loops of yarn, thread, or strands of other materials. The name is derived from the French term crochet, which means ''''hook'.''' Hooks can be made from different materials (aluminum, steel, metal, wood, bamboo, bone, etc.), sizes, and types (in-line, tapered, ergonomic, etc.). The key difference between crochet and knitting, beyond the implements used for their production, is that each stitch in crochet is completed before the next one, while knitti

thumb|right|250px|Primate and pachyderm taxidermy at the [[Rahmat International Wildlife Museum & Gallery, Medan, Sumatra, Indonesia]]

tool that is used in office and administration; craft in which some type of ink made of dye or pigment is applied to an image or pattern that has been carved, molded, laser engraved or vulcanized, onto a sheet of rubber

thumb|Vasily Tropinin, Lady from [[Podolia, before 1821. A woman in vyshyvanka]] thumb|Basic structure of garment

thumb|300px|A vintage scrapbook

traditional Ukrainian decorative painting style

thumb|upright|Food cans upcycled into a stool Upcycling, also known as creative reuse, is the process of transforming by-products, waste materials, useless, or unwanted products into new materials or products perceived to be of greater quality, such as artistic value or environmental value. thumb|Upcycling visual representation (non-official) Norberto Miranda (2025).

method of aqueous surface design

thumb|upright=1.3|Beadwork on the ceremonial dress of a Datooga woman Beadwork is the art or craft of attaching beads to one another by stringing them onto a thread or thin wire with a sewing or beading needle or sewing them to cloth. Beads are produced in a diverse range of materials, shapes, and sizes, and vary by the kind of art produced. Most often, beadwork is a form of personal adornment (e.g. jewelry), but it also commonly makes up other artworks.

Proto-industrialization is the regional development, alongside commercial agriculture, of rural handicraft production for external markets. Cottage industries in parts of Europe between the 16th and 19th centuries had long been a niche topic of study. In the early 1970s, some economic historians introduced the label "proto-industrialization", arguing that these developments were the main cause of the economic and demographic growth and social change that occurred in Europe over this period, and of the Industrial Revolution that followed. Several theories were proposed to explain the mechanisms

a hand made art doll created from a blank kit or a manufactured doll that has been completely transformed by an artist to resemble a human infant with as much realism as possible

thumb|Khokhloma setright|thumb|Khokhloma tableware on a Soviet postage stamp. Khokhloma (also Hohloma, Russian: хохлома; Russian pronunciation: [xəxɫɐˈma]) or Khokhloma painting (хохломская роспись, hohlomskaya rospis) is a style of Russian art traditionally painted on wooden household items. It is known for its curved linear features depicting vivid small flowers, berries, grasses, and leaf motifs. The Firebird, a common and popular figure from the Russian fairytales is often featured as the main subject matter.

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Duodji is a traditional cultural Sami handicraft. Some examples include knives, cases, women's bags, wooden cups, and articles of clothing. Duodji items are intended to be primarily functional and were made to be used in an everyday work environment, but may also incorporate artistic elements.

thumb|right|Treshchotka A treshchotka ( or treskotukha () is a Russian folk music idiophone percussion instrument which produces a clicking/cracking sound. It consists of a set of small boards somewhat loosely threaded by one end on a string or a pair of strings, with the ends sticking out, used to hold and rattle the instrument. The word itself generically denotes any device that makes a cracking sound (from the noun "", tresk).

product made from the very hard white endosperm of the seeds of certain palm trees

right|thumb|A fairly complex box stitch is shown here. Beginning at the left, it begins with quadruple box for 5 stitches, and then splits into single barrel (top) and double barrel (bottom) thus incorporating a window. After 11 stitches, the two independent barrels rejoin for another 13 stitches until the end (right).

species of plant

traditional Russian wooden carved toy

A heat press is a machine engineered to imprint a design or graphic on a substrate, such as a t-shirt, with the application of heat and pressure for a preset period of time.

technique for smoothing and polishing a rough surface on relatively small parts

Workmanship is a human attribute relating to knowledge and skill at performing a task. Workmanship is also a quality imparted to a product. The type of work may include the creation of handcrafts, art, writing, machinery and other products.

Thai floral garland

thumb|Sugru used to repair a damaged camera grip, with texture achieved by impressing fibreglass mesh before curing was complete thumb|The joystick of a game controller that has been fixed with Sugru

figure or symbolic object plaited from grain stalks

thumb|A woman wearing a craftivist facemask. Craftivism is a contemporary form of activism that uses craft as its primary mode for political and social engagement. Craftivism is not tied to any single ideology, incorporating themes of anti-capitalism, environmentalism, solidarity, third-wave feminism, and other related movements. Much of the practice draws on techniques historically classified as the domestic arts, inclusive of sewing, quilting, embroidery, and other forms of handwork traditionally associated with home and women's labor. Craftivism is defined by the repurposing of these practi

process of producing artificial flies used in fly fishing

type of rag doll

thumb|right|350px|Picots on a tatted insertion. The picots are the small, oval-shaped loops arranged in threes at the top of the tatted material.

thumb|right|Hand made greeting card Card making is the craft of hand-making greeting cards. It shares skills in common in allied crafts such as scrapbooking and stamping.

needlework tradition in the Caribbean island of Saba

nonprofit founded in 1899

thumb|Crown made for the queen of the 25th National Fair Piteado (2016) in Colotlán thumb|250px|Detail of a hand made piteado belt thumb|175px|Punteador at work in talabartería thumb|175px|Variety of piteado belts

thumb|Off-white cotton sheer ground with an embroidered design of a stylized floral spray: The vines are executed in gold foil strips, the small flowers in gilt sequins, and the leaves in beetle elytra. thumb|Sternocera aequisignata แมลงทับ, a beetle used in Thailand for beetlewing decoration thumb|Tamamushi Shrine, [[Horyu-ji, Nara Prefecture, Japan, Asuka Period, decorated with lacquer and oil painting on wood, gilt bronze plaques, and the iridescent wings of jewel beetle (Tamamushi)]] Beetlewing, or beetlewing art, is an ancient craft technique using iridescent beetle wings practiced tradi

depiction of animal made using towels

Russian traditional handcraft