Crafts
My favourite hobby
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:
As an art form, crafts are an outlet of human expression, usually
influenced by culture and which in turn help to change culture. Crafts
are a physical manifestation of the internal human creative impulse and
typically involves the use of hands to create the artform.
One of the visual arts - visual arts is a class of art forms, including
painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking and others, that focus on
the creation of works which are primarily visual in nature.