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