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. Crafts as a whole can be described as all of the following:

Types of crafts

Ceramics and glass crafts

Ceramics and ceramic arts include:

Fibre and textile crafts

See also Needlework below

Flower crafts

Leatherwork

Houseware

Fashion

Cloth Jewelry

Needlework

Paper crafts

Paper crafts include:

Wood and furniture crafts

Stone crafts

Metal crafts

Printing

General crafts concepts