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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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Stencil
Arts & crafts; Modern art
An impervious material perforated with letters, shapes, or patterns through which a substance passes through to a surface.
Street photography
Arts & crafts; Modern art
A type of photography that captures subjects in candid moments in public places.
Zoopraxiscope
Arts & crafts; Modern art
19th-century motion-picture device, designed by Edweard Muybridge, in which light is projected through rotating glass disks applied at the rim with a changing sequence of images, ...
Zoetrope
Arts & crafts; Modern art
19th century motion-picture device, invented by William George Homer, in which a strip of paper with a changing sequence of images is placed in the bottom of a circular drum. The ...
Ziggurat
Arts & crafts; Modern art
A terraced pyramid form comprising successively receding stories.
Woodcut
Arts & crafts; Modern art
A term loosely applied to any printmaking technique involving a relief image cut into the surface of a wooden block. The wood is covered with ink and applied to a sheet of paper; ...
Wiener Werkstätte
Arts & crafts; Modern art
An association of Vienna-based visual artists, craftspeople, and designers established in 1903 around the idea that fashionable art, design, furniture, and household goods should ...
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