HISTORY OF CRAFT

NAME: DEEPIKA
CLASS: 8TH KEATS
ROLL NO.:07

SUBJECT: S.ST. (HISTORY)

 CRAFT
• A craft or trade is a pastime or an occupation that requires particular
skills and knowledge of skilled work. In a historical sense, particularly
in Middle Ages and earlier, the term is usually applied to people occupied
in the small-scale production of goods, or their maintenance, for example
by tinkers. The traditional term craftsman is nowadays often replaced
by artisan and by craftsperson.
CLASSIFICATION
• Handicraft
Handicraft is the “traditional" main sector of crafts, it is a
type of work where useful and decorative devices are
made completely by hand or by using only simple tools.
The term is usually applied to traditional means of making
goods. The beginning of crafts in areas like the Ottoman
Empire involved the governing bodies requiring members
of the city who were skilled at creating goods to open
shops in the center of town.
THE ARTS AND CRAFTS MOVEMENT

The term crafts are often used to describe the family of artistic

practices within the family of decorative art that traditionally is
defined by their relationship to functional or utilitarian products
(such as sculptural forms in the vessel tradition) or by their use
of such natural media as wood, clay, ceramics, glass, textiles,
and metal. The Arts and Crafts Movement originated in Britain
during the late 19th century and was characterized by a style of
decoration reminiscent of medieval times. 
 HISTORY OF CRAFT
• The word 'Craft' comes from the Middle English word for 'strength' or 'skill' derived from
the Old English word craft which comes from Old High German kraft, for strength, and
means “skill in planning, making, executing” and, by extension, “an occupation or trade
 requiring skill” and crafts, then, being those objects resulting from the application of that
skill (Merriam-Webster Dictionary). Every civilization has developed its own crafts and
the term can be applied to numerous aspects of each of them. Within the scope of this
article, the term is applied only to hand-crafts including ceramics and metal-working but
it should be understood that the term is equally applicable to writing and other forms of
expression.
MINOAN JUG IN FLORAL STYLE

Minoan ceramics and vase paintings

are uniquely stylized and are similar in
artistic style to Minoan wall painting. Late
New-Palace period (1450 BCE) clay jug
with distinctive leaf pattern, from Phaistos.
 THANK YOU

• TO: Miss. NANDITA MAM (Class Teacher)