A work produced by hand labor

Usage examples of handicraft.

In fact, the Ashanti were famous for their handicraft with the precious metal.

The people spent most of their days fishing or producing a variety of handicrafts, including excellent pottery and copperware that were displayed in the open-air market.

It got rich from the native people in the North as well as throughout C anada and took advantage of the native people, especially in the area of furs, handicrafts and carvings.

He may also inspect with profit the handicraft of a lowly mollusc which agglutinates sand-grains into a kind of plaque, in the substance of which numerous eggs are deposited.

Egypt and Assyria handicrafts had already come to a stage which could only have been reached by thousands of years of progress.

Richard saw reason to deeply regret that the youth had been put to clerking in the first instance, and not rather trained for some handicraft, clerkships being about the least hopeful of positions for a working-class lad of small parts and pronounced blackguard tendencies.

Unlike most executive suites it contained no televisions, no radios, no sound systems, no paintings, no couches, no exercise areas, no handicrafts alcoves, no wet bars.

These were chiefly obliged to acquire handicrafts or other occupations.

She took the road to Ullapool, where, Gloria had informed her, there was a rather delightful shop selling local handicrafts and tweeds.

Range Rovers from Britain, any drugs you want, they hand-make copies of any kind of gun in the world, gold-plated Purdey shotguns, Kalashnikovs, M16s, pirated Snoop, Doggy Dog CDs, all this next to the most beautiful, timeless, local handicrafts, rugs, lamps.

The Catholics have persecuted the Protestants with bloody and awful bitterness, but they never closed agriculture and the handicrafts against them.

So the Kota lived in cozy economic interdependence with the Toda livestock-breeders and Badaga farmers, swapping handicrafts and music for steaks and bread.

They had set out on a field trip to a trade center bordering the jungle lands of the Hanging People -- brachiators, Louis gathered, who traded in nuts and dried fruit -- and the Herders, carnivores who dealt in leather goods and handicrafts.

Son-in-law or no son-in-law, Adam had made himself too necessary to be parted with, and his headwork was so much more important to Burge than his skill in handicraft that his having the management of the woods made little difference in the value of his services.

He was partial to handicrafts and had himself built several pianos and clavichords in the ancient style.