Arts and crafts

Arts and crafts describes a wide variety of activities involving making things with one's own hands.  Arts and crafts is usually a hobby. Some crafts (art skills) have been practised since preshistoric times, others are more recent inventions. William Morris, John Ruskin and others promoted an "arts and crafts" movement in the late 19th century, which popularized the phrase.

Both children and adults enjoy arts and crafts. Children in schools may learn skills such as woodworking, wood carving, sewing, or making things with all sorts of material. Many community centres and schools have evening or day classes and workshops where one can learn arts and craft skills 

 Crafts involving textiles 
 Banner-making
 Calligraphy
 Cross-stitch
 Crocheting
 Embroidery
 Felting
 Knitting
 Lace-making
 Macramé
 Millinery
 Needlepoint
 Patchwork
 Quilting
 Rug making
 Sewing
 Shoemaking
 Spinning (textiles)
 String art
 Tapestry
 Weaving
 T-shirt art

Crafts involving wood, metal or clay

 Metalworking
 Jewelry
 Pottery
 Sculpture
 Woodworking
 Cabinet making
 Marquetry
 Lacquerware
 Wood burning
 Wood turning

Crafts involving paper or canvas
 Bookbinding
 Calligraphy
 Cardmaking
 Card Modelling
 Collage
 Decoupage
 Embossing
 Iris Folding
 Marbling
 Origami
 Papercraft
 Papier-mâché
 Parchment craft
 Quilling or Paper Filigree
 Scrapbooking
 Stamping (with a rubber stamp)
  Sketching

Crafts involving plants
 Basket weaving
 Corn dolly making
 Floral Design
 Pressed flower craft
 Straw marquetry

Other crafts
 Balloon animal
 Beadwork
 Doll making
 Dollhouse construction and furnishing
 Egg decorating
 Etching
 Glassblowing
 Lapidary
 Mosaics
 Stained glass
 Toy making
 Polymer clay

Category:Hobbies
Category:Art