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Crafting Techniques for Artisans

The document discusses several types of handicrafts including pottery, basket weaving, weaving, tatting, and crochet. Pottery involves shaping and firing clay into ceramics. Basket weaving uses pliable materials like reeds or fibers to create containers and mats. Weaving is a textile technique that interlaces two sets of threads perpendicular to form fabric. Tatting creates lace through a series of knots and loops using a thread. Crochet involves interlocking loops of yarn or thread with a hook to form fabric.

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Crafting Techniques for Artisans

The document discusses several types of handicrafts including pottery, basket weaving, weaving, tatting, and crochet. Pottery involves shaping and firing clay into ceramics. Basket weaving uses pliable materials like reeds or fibers to create containers and mats. Weaving is a textile technique that interlaces two sets of threads perpendicular to form fabric. Tatting creates lace through a series of knots and loops using a thread. Crochet involves interlocking loops of yarn or thread with a hook to form fabric.

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A handicraft, sometimes more precisely expressed as artisanal

handicraft or handmade, is any of a wide variety of types of work where


useful and decorative objects are made completely by hand or by using
only simple tools.

Pottery

Pottery is the ceramic material which makes up potterywares,[1] of which major


types include earthenware, stoneware and porcelain. The place where such
wares are made is also called a pottery (plural "potteries"). Pottery also refers to
the art or craft of a potter or the manufacture of pottery.[2][3] A dictionary definition
is simply objects of fired clays.[4] The definition of pottery used by the American
Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) is "all fired ceramic wares that contain
clay when formed, except technical, structural, and refractory products."

Basket Weaving

Basket weaving (also basketry or basket making) is the process


of weaving or sewing pliable materials into two- or threedimensional artefacts,
such as mats or containers. Crafts(wo)men and artists specialised in making
baskets are usually referred to as basket makersand basket weavers.

Weaving

Weaving is a method of textile production in which two distinct sets of yarns or


threads are interlaced at right angles to form a fabric orcloth. Similar methods
are knitting, felting, and braiding or plaiting. The longitudinal threads are called
the warp and the lateral threads are the weft or filling. (Weft or woof is an
old English word meaning "that which is woven".[a]) The method in which these
threads are inter woven affects the characteristics of the cloth.[1]

Tatting

Tatting is a technique for handcrafting a particularly durable lace from a series


of knots and loops.[1] Tatting can be used to make lace edging as well
as doilies, collars, accesories such as earrings and necklaces, and other
decorative pieces. The lace is formed by a pattern of rings and chains formed
from a series of cow hitch or half-hitch knots, called double stitches, over a
core thread. Gaps can be left between the stitches to form picots, which are used
for practical construction as well as decorative effects

Crochet

Crochet (English pronunciation: /kroe/;[1] French: [k][2]) is a process of


creating fabric by interlocking loops of yarn, thread, or strands of other materials
using a crochet hook.[3] The name is taken from the French word "crochet",
meaning small hook. These are made of materials such as metal, wood, or
plastic and are manufactured commercially and produced in artisan workshops.
The salient difference between crochet andknitting, beyond the implements used
for their production, is that each stitch in crochet is completed before proceeding
with the next one, while knitting keeps a large number of stitches open at a time.

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