Arts & crafts

Arts & crafts

Arts & crafts comprises a multitude of activities and hobbies that involve making things with one's hands, usually from scratch. They can be sub-divided into 'handicrafts'( or traditional crafts ) that are fashioned in an old style using long practised techniques, and the rest which are more modern inventions that have become recent trends or fads.

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Scale

Arts & crafts; Modern art

The ratio between the size of an object and its model or representation, as in the scale of a map to the actual geography it represents.

Screenprinting

Arts & crafts; Modern art

A printing technique in which areas of a silkscreen, comprised of woven mesh stretched on a frame, are selectively blocked off with a non-permeable material (typically a ...

Screw

Arts & crafts; Modern art

A threaded cylindrical pin or rod with a head at one end, used as a fastener to hold things together or lift materials. Examples include corkscrews, drills, and threaded jar lids.

Shutter

Arts & crafts; Modern art

A mechanical device for controlling the aperture, or opening, in a camera through which light passes to the film or plate. By opening and closing for different amounts of time, ...