handicraft
IPA: hˈændikræft
noun
- A trade requiring skill of hand; manual occupation; handcraft.
- An artifact produced by handicraft.
- (rare, obsolete) A man who earns his living by handicraft; a handicraftsman.
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Examples of "handicraft" in Sentences
- The principal handicraft is the production of stoneware crockery.
- Would you also include, in the National Gallery, what may be called the handicraft of a nation -- works for domestic use or ornament?
- In an alcove to the side of one of the exhibits, a young man sat in a room full of a kind of handicraft we have not seen anywhere else.
- There was a movement, begun in the early Shwa years, to invest dignity in Japanese handicraft or folk art, the mingei movement, advocated by Yanagi Setsu (18891961).
- Nevertheless let no one think that because sanitary nursing is the subject of these notes, therefore, what may be called the handicraft of nursing is to be undervalued.
- As she explains, an authentic Mexican handicraft is created by "an artist whose family may have done the same work for generations and who has lovingly formed, molded and put his soul into his work."