Craft

Wiccan religious practice

Craft is skill in making things by hand, or the activity requiring such skill: the craft of woodworking, a craft fair.

A craft is also a vehicle—boats, aircraft, spacecraft.

The plural for vehicles is craft, not crafts.

To craft something is to make it with care and skill: a carefully crafted argument.

Crafty means cunning or sly, from an older sense of craft as cunning or guile.

artform

pottery

Fired clay objects

quilting · embroidery · macrame · leatherwork · glassblowing · ceramics · basketry · origami · scrapbooking · beading

handmade

artisan

Skilled manual tradesperson

workshop · maker · handiwork · creation · artisanal · handwork · handmade · studio · workbench · supplies

vessel

boat

Watercraft for travel

  • shipSeagoing transport vessel
  • vesselReceptacle for contents
  • sailboatWind-propelled watercraft

yacht · canoe · kayak · dinghy · catamaran · skiff · schooner · rowboat · motorboat · hull

cunning

guile

Sly, strategic dishonesty

wile · trickery · manipulation · slyness · shrewdness · artifice · subterfuge · stratagem · duplicity · machination

skill

mastery

Complete skill or control

artistry · finesse · workmanship · precision · dexterity · aptitude · competence · ability · talent · knack

aircraft

airplane

Powered flying machine

drone · aviation · cockpit · fuselage · propeller · flight · aerospace · airship · biplane · ultralight

Categories
Opposites
skill and artistry

Craftincompetence

Lack of required skill

clumsiness · ineptitude · amateurishness · sloppiness · crudeness

production method

Craftmass production

Large-scale standardized fabrication

industrial manufacturing · factory production · automation · machine-made · assembly line

cunning and deception

Craftguilelessness

Absence of cunning

artlessness · honesty · candor · straightforwardness · sincerity

Phrases
Family

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G