domestic arts
Skills for home
Domestic arts are the skills traditionally associated with homemaking—cooking, sewing, cleaning, childcare, and household management.
The term frames these practical activities as crafts worthy of study and refinement.
Once a standard part of education for girls, domestic arts courses (also called home economics) have largely disappeared from schools.
She learned the domestic arts from her grandmother.
- cookingPreparing food with heat
- bread makingCrafting loaves from dough
- interior designPlanning indoor spaces
- sewingCraft with needle and thread
- hand stitchingSewing done manually
cleaning · baking · jam making · dyeing · candle making · fermenting · decluttering · preserving · embroidery · furniture restoration · quilting · mending · wallpapering · tailoring · crocheting · repairing · knitting · weaving
- handcraftssewing, knitting, weaving, pottery, quilts
- homemakingcooking, cleaning, laundry, recipes, baking
- home economicshome economics, cooking, cooking techniques, sewing, cleaning
- Old-Fashioned Homemakinghomemaking, household management, canning, preserving, pickling
- women's contributionssuffrage, voting rights, feminism, civil rights, equal pay
- girls' educationgirls' schools, girls' education, finishing school, finishing schools, convent school
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Applied manufacturing education
manufacturing · factory work · mass production · commercial production · heavy industry
domestic artspublic life
Existence in societal view
civic affairs · martial arts · manual trades · breadwinning · field work
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Non-vocational higher education
fine arts · academic disciplines · higher education · intellectual pursuits · philosophy
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