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noun
the handcrafting and decoration of especially utilitarian objects.
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Origin of arts and crafts
First recorded in 1885–90
Words nearby arts and crafts
artotype, art paper, art rock, art runner, arts, arts and crafts, Arts and Crafts Movement, art song, artsy, Artsybashev, artsy-craftsy
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How to use arts and crafts in a sentence
You can follow up this trip with an arts and crafts project, dessert session, or Lego activity that allows you and your child to properly model these distinct layers, which is a fun way to keep the discussion going.
They are developing the embryo of what was the arts-and-crafts idea into a really fine, useful and satisfying art form.
Greenwich Village|Anna Alice ChapinWeve sold most of your arts-and-crafts things, announced Winona.
Winona of the Camp Fire|Margaret WiddemerAside from a few arts-and-crafts potters who of necessity must work on a very limited scale we are training no pottery-makers.
The Story of Porcelain|Sara Ware Bassett
British Dictionary definitions for arts and crafts
Arts and Crafts
pl n
decorative handicraft and design, esp that of the Arts and Crafts movement, in late nineteenth-century Britain, which sought to revive medieval craftsmanship
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