handicraft
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Handicraft refers to items made by hand using traditional skills and techniques, often produced by individual artisans or small groups rather than in factories. These handmade goods are created and sold in communities around the world, from batik textiles in Indonesia to craft shops in places like Finland and Iran, and represent cultural and artistic traditions passed down through generations.
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- The Arts and Crafts movement in the West
- In modern education
- Handicraft production
- Craft production at the community scale
- Craft economies and location
- List of common handicrafts
- Using plants fibers
- Using textiles or leather
- Using wood, metal, clay, bone, horn, glass, or stone
- Using paper or canvas
- Using plants other than wood
- Other
- Sales venues
- Asian handicrafts
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
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A handicraft is a traditional main sector of craft making and applies to a wide range of creative and design activities that are related to making things with one's hands and skill, including work with textiles, moldable and rigid materials, paper, plant fibers, clay, etc. One of the oldest handicraft is Dhokra; this is a sort of metal casting that has been used in India for over 5,000 years and is still used. In Iranian Baluchistan, women still make redware hand-made pottery with dotted ornaments, much similar to the 4,000-year-old pottery tradition of Kalpouregan, an archaeological site near the village. Usually, the term is applied to traditional techniques of creating items (whether for personal use or as products) that are both practical and aesthetic. Handicraft industries are those that produce things with hands to meet the needs of the people in their locality without using machines.