Crossword clues for handcraft
The Collaborative International Dictionary
handcraft \hand"craft`\, hand-craft \hand"-craft`\v. t. to make (something) by hand.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English handcræft "manual skill, power of the hand; handicraft;" see handicraft.
Wiktionary
n. variant of handicraft vb. To engage in handcraft or handicraft.
WordNet
n. a work produced by hand labor [syn: handicraft, handiwork, handwork]
v. make something by hand; "We handcraft all our paper"
Usage examples of "handcraft".
The Kharandas, the people among whom she had once done field-research work, had developed a pre-mechanical, animal-power, handcraft, edge-weapon culture.
They all believe that they make handcrafts, but it is clear from the involuntary recreation of the repetitive motions they went through that it could be nothing of the sort.
The gift shop soon followed, where visitors can buy rocks, minerals, and fossils, as well as handcrafts and needlepoint to benefit the church, all at a ten percent discount for those who have taken the Kaverns Tour.
Expd only, bckgrd with exotic handcrafts, perfumes, liqueurs, xenonar-cotics.
It manufactured handcrafted leather chairs and sofas and teakwood desks and tables for the well-to-do.
Air shafts to ventilate fire pits, complex masonry, fitted stones handcrafted by a people who had no metal for tools.
Along the handcrafted walnut railing that ran up the turret staircase dominating the foyer, an electric hoist now whirred along a grease-blackened track.
Though it had been handcrafted, it was a beautiful piece of furniture.
Others were rolling out merchandise--T-shirts with island logos, books, postcards, sunglasses, saltwater taffy, paintings of seascapes and handcrafted jewelry.
Two shops on from where her mother left her was a small jewellers special ising in handcrafted items in gold and semi-precious stones.
The cumbersome, handcrafted books had been the salvation of the First Generation.
On the other hand, several of the stores looked new: an art gallery with a Southwestern motif, a jeweler advertising handcrafted silver, a Victorian house that had been turned into a Mexican restaurant, complete with wrought-iron tables on the porch.
Lieutenant, handcrafting not only gives you the opportunity to create beautiful things that reflect your own style and personality while honoring centuries of traditions, but is very therapeutic.
September 13, in a statewide radio and TV address to the people of Mississippi, in a speech handcrafted by Bill Simmons, Ross Barnett squinted at the camera through his thick glasses, threw down the gauntlet and came close to declaring war on the U.
They telecommute, make handcrafts, paint and sculpt, write software, compile databases.