Arts and Crafts

Arts and crafts also refers to the Arts and Crafts movement, a reform designed to late 19th century and the social movement. His supporters were motivated by the ideals of William Morris and John Ruskin, who proposed that in pre-industrial societies, such as the Middle Ages in Europe, people have achieved through the realization of the creative process of craft. This has been, contrary to what was seen as the alienating effects of the industrial workforce.
Works Progress Administration, craft class, 1935.

These activities are called crafts because originally many of them were professionals in the guild system. Adolescents were apprenticed to a master craftsman, and have honed their skills over a period of several years at low wages. Upon completion of training, they were well equipped to establish trade for themselves, who earn their living with a skill that can be traded directly within the community, often for goods and services. The industrial revolution and the increasing mechanization of production processes gradually reduced or eliminated many of the roles played professional craftsmen and crafts of today are more often seen as a form of entertainment or art.

The spacecraft term also refers to the products of artistic production or creation that require a high degree of tacit knowledge, are highly technical, requiring special equipment and / or production facilities, involve manual work or blue collar work -ethics, which are accessible to the general public and are made from materials with histories that exceed the limits of the history of Western art, including pottery, glass, textiles, wood and metal. These products are manufactured within a community of practice and, although they differ from products manufactured in the communities of art and design, the boundaries of such often overlap resulting in hybrid objects. Moreover, as the interpretation and validation of art is often a matter of context, public perception May artifacts as art objects when these objects are considered in an artistic context, as in a museum or a position of importance in his house.

The term may also refer to the useful rural crafts of the harvest. Craft refers to Plato's idea of specialization in the bottom of society that has a specific job in society in general to function properly as a whole.

Arts and Crafts includes a series of activities and entertainment that are related to things with his hands and skill. These can be divided into handicrafts or "Traditional crafts" (doing things the old one) and "the rest". Some operations are practiced for centuries, while others are modern inventions, or popularization crafts originally practiced in a small geographic area.

Most jobs require a combination of skill, speed and patience, but you can also use a more basic level by virtually anyone. Many community centers and schools in the evening or day classes and offering workshops to teach basic trades in a short period of time. Many of these crafts become extremely popular for brief periods of time (several months or years), spreads rapidly among the population in each boat emulates the first examples, then his popularity drops to a resurgence later.