Craft

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A craft is a skill, especially involving practical arts. It may refer to a trade or particular art.

The term is often used as part of a longer word (and also in the plural). For example, a craft-brother is a fellow worker in a particular trade and a craft-guild is, historically, a guild of workers in the same trade. See some further examples below.

Crafts are the family of artistic practices that defined either 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, glass, textiles, and metal. Crafts practiced by independent artists working alone or in small groups are often referred to as studio craft. Studio craft includes studio pottery, metal work, weaving, wood turning and other forms of wood working, glass blowing and glass art.

A craft fair is an event organized to display crafts by exhibitors.

Folk art follows craft traditions, in contrast to fine art or "high art".

According to the Jewish Halakha, a father must teach his son at least one craft, so the son could earn his bread in a legitimate way. The Babylonian Talmud (a Jewish law book) says that if a father that doesn't teach his son a craft, it is as if he taught his robbery.

Both Freemasonry and Wicca are alternatively known as 'The Craft' by their adherents.

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