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Arts and crafts   /ɑrts ənd kræfts/   Listen
Arts and crafts

noun
1.
The arts of decorative design and handicraft.





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"Arts and crafts" Quotes from Famous Books



... is no greater than the range of qualities which may be happily and usefully employed in arts and crafts. All branches of the work, however, are alike in demanding a certain degree of artistic sense and deftness of manual touch. An accurate, observant eye is an absolute essential, and, for all but the lowest and most mechanical lines ...
— Vocational Guidance for Girls • Marguerite Stockman Dickson
... concerned with the decoration of books, at least, was found in the art of Duerer, Holbein, and the German engravers of the sixteenth century,—interest in which period has been lately so stimulated by the Arts and Crafts movement in England. This movement, which may fairly be regarded as one of the most powerful influences in latter-day art, was begun with the aim of restoring those healthy conditions which obtained ...
— Pen Drawing - An Illustrated Treatise • Charles Maginnis


Words linked to "Arts and crafts" :   plural form, art, artistic creation, handicraft, artistic production, plural


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