home crafts

Knitting and sewing

Home crafts are creative or practical projects made by hand at home, typically for domestic use or decoration.

The term covers activities like knitting, sewing, woodworking, candle-making, and similar pursuits: She sells her home crafts at the farmers market.

Home crafts suggest amateur production and personal satisfaction rather than commercial manufacture.

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beadwork · woodworking · sewing · paper quilling · scrapbooking · bookbinding · rug hooking · cross-stitching · fabric dyeing · quilting · decoupage · candle making · felting · pyrography · soap making · macramé · calligraphy · origami

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Opposites
production method

home craftsindustrial manufacturing

Large-scale goods fabrication

mass production · industrial output · factory output · industrial goods

skill type

home craftsfactory work

Employment in manufacturing facilities

industrial labor · sweatshop labor

commercial context

home craftscommercial products

Goods sold for profit

Family

home, crafts

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Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G