¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Handicrafts
1. handicraft [n] - See also: handicraft
Lexicographical Neighbors of Handicrafts
Literary usage of Handicrafts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Report (1906)
"The committee appointed to look into the subject of handicrafts in the schools
has gathered, with as much completeness as possible, statistics concerning ..."
2. Vocational Education in Europe: Report to the Commercial Club of Chicago by Edwin Gilbert Cooley (1912)
"Elberfeld handicrafts and Art-Trades School. Erfurt handicrafts and Art-Trades
School. ... Berlin First handicrafts School. Bielefeld handicrafts School. ..."
3. Outlines of the History of Art by Wilhelm Lübke (1904)
"ARTISTIC handicrafts AMONG THE ANCIENTS. IN order to gain a more complete idea
of the artistic endowments of the peoples of classic antiquity, we will, ..."
4. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx (1906)
"REVOLUTION EFFECTED IN MANUFACTURE, handicrafts. AND DOMESTIC INDUSTRY BY MODERN
INDUSTRY. a. Overthrow of Co-operation based on Handicraft and on the ..."
5. The International Congress of Women of 1899 by International Council of Women (1900)
"SPECIAL APTITUDE OF WOMEN FOE handicrafts. COUNCIL CHAMBER, WESTMINSTER TOWN ...
These handicrafts, the women's branches of which come especially within the ..."
6. The Mind and Its Education by George Herbert Betts (1916)
"One-half of our people live in cities and towns, and even in the village and on
the farm the handicrafts of the home have been relegated to the factory, ..."
7. Industrial Evolution by Karl Bücher (1901)
"CHAPTER V. THE DECLINE OF THE handicrafts. THERE are in Germany two handicraft
problems. One is a problem belonging to the newspapers and the legislatures, ..."
8. The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province and Kashmir by James McCrone Douie (1916)
"CHAPTER XV handicrafts AND MANUFACTURES handicrafts.—The chief handicrafts of
the province are those of the weaver, the shoemaker, the carpenter, ..."