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Crafts and Arts

The phrase Crafts and Arts is a unique artistic style which refers to the production of manual labor. It is always called Crafts for short. Unlike the mass manufacture of machine made, the productions of arts and crafts are made by people’s hands. Mechanical tools can be used but craftsman’s hand work is the main source of finished productions. Handicrafts made from natural materials, and the same raw materials can be produced into various shapes and productions, such as an hobby craft pipe cleaners, craftsman can use the same raw material makes rings, flowers, comic figures and so on .Such arts and crafts productions have the specialty of artistic and creative, and has been one of the most important carrier of cultural messages, besides, they have a function of decoration. Arts and crafts are a term with multiple meanings, one of the most important connotations of them is a special kind of crafts skills, especially refers to the categories of manual arts.

The traditional arts and crafts

The skill of Arts and crafts is created by the folk craftsman and, it comes from people’s life and serves their lives. In the past, most of the handcrafts have their practical function, for example, in china, people using bamboo as the whole shebang to load objects. At that age there is no machine can replace human, people made life necessities by themselves .Chinese traditions handcrafts has made a good reputation all over the world. Such as Chinese knot, embroidery and fabric. All of these three handcrafts have long histories. The long traditional culture precipitates makes them full of the national unique and cultures. So the traditional craft has its unique value.

The modern arts and crafts

We would like to call the modern arts and crafts as DIY (DO IT YOURSELF).today’s markets are full of bead necklace and cross switch. Handmade becomes easier to learn and most of them made for fun or decoration, deep attainments in handmade don’t need in today’s crafts. People can do them freely according to their own interesting, such as bead necklace and cross switch. They can buy raw materials or finished productions from one online crafts store, many online crafts store supplied variety of DIY productions, and meanwhile, they give handmade courses to their buyers for free.

The development and actuality of traditional Arts and Crafts

At present, two main reasons holding back the development of traditional crafts. The first one is process scale. Many crafts projects have not formed into appropriate scale manufacture and most of them made by the folk handicraftsmen in their spare time. Besides, the modern people have not seen the economic worth of them; the solo traditional crafts producers cannot enlarge the potential market. How to provide a long-term platform and economic support to this special culture industry is a big problem we need to resolve. The other problem is how to Propaganda culture industry, the traditional Arts and crafts has not drawn enough attentions of people, so there must be a Publicity Platform to do this job.