Handicrafts
A handicraft, sometimes more precisely expressed as artisanal handicraft or handmade, is any of a wide variety of types of work where useful and decorative objects are made completely by one’s hand (hence the term handicraft) or by using only simple, non-tech related tools like scissors, carving implements, or hooks. It is a traditional main sector of craft making and applies to a wide range of creative and design activities that are related to making things with one's hands and skill, including work with textiles, moldable and rigid materials, paper, plant fibers, etc. One of the world's oldest handicraft is …
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MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 June 2024 English
Complemented by over 150 rarely seen illustrations, Needle Work moves from coast to coast and across more than one hundred years to provide a key chapter in the history of …
pre-commercial maritime tattooing and sailor handicrafts.89 For those who travelled frequently, having …
CAEP: Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians · 2024 English
market challenge / opt-out and shop for local handicrafts or taste Northern Thai street-food favorites …
UAP: University of Alberta Press · 1 December 2023 English
All the World’s a Mall is a memorable, hallucinatory travel adventure to five of the biggest malls in the world.
the ground floor, sells only high-end Chinese handicrafts, wooden sculptures and porce- lain, whose sales …
UCP: University of Calgary Press · 30 November 2023 English
Innovative textile-based artwork exploded across the Canadian Prairies in the second half of the twentieth century. Melding craft traditions with modern and modernist movements in art and theory, a diverse …
guidance of Oscar Bériau (Director-General of Handicrafts for Québec), handweaving was positioned as … home!”17 In his 1931 lecture “The Value of Handicrafts,” the new president of the Canadian Handicraft … nine provincial crafts guilds at The Canadian Handicrafts Guild's Annual Prize and Competition Exhibition … the great- est authorities of the world, on handicrafts including weaving.”58 In 1942 Searle estab- … tice would take. With a metaphorical pat Handicrafts made by pupils of Searle Weaving classes. Hand …
FRQSC: Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la société et la culture · 27 October 2023 French
Cette innovation qui réunit le Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal (MBAM), le laboratoire AgeTeQ du Centre de recherche de l’institut universitaire de gériatrie de Le Fonds s'engage à rendre public …
textile and fiber artists have revived traditional handicrafts like quilting, macramé and embroidery, applying …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 22 August 2023 English
The Mosaic Myth shows how Canada’s 1971 adoption of the cultural mosaic model was doomed by false assumptions. Author Domenic Diamante explains Canada’s immigration history and analyzes key questions that …
who welcomed it: “Poor folklore dances, lousy handicrafts, local news- papers with nothing on Canada, or …
TEEB: The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity · 17 August 2023
The project established a Project Steering Committee (PSC) to conceptualize, design, and steer the TEEBAgriFood application throughout the project's duration focusing on promoting organic farming and agroforestry in the Ganga …
yield plants, plants with prospects for use in handicrafts and dyes insecticides, piscicides. Detailed list … significant cultural heritage and contribute to unique handicrafts prevalent in the state. Agriculture is the main … from Garhwal Himalyas with prospects for use in handicrafts Vernacular Botanical name name Part used for …
Fraser Institute · 15 June 2023 English
For four decades during the latter half of the 20th century, Poland and its people were the subjects of a grand socio-economic experiment. Under the watchful eye of its Soviet …
similar scenario played out in industry and handicrafts, where private output decreased from 21 percent … private enterprise be permitted in retail trade, handicrafts, services, and small-scale production. Though …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 June 2023 English
In the decades following the Second World War, women from all walks of life became increasingly frustrated by the world around them. Drawing on long-standing political traditions, these women bound …
Indians 35 Guardians of the Nation sold their handicrafts. On the shoreline of the lake scores of row- …
Fraser Institute · 24 May 2023 English
For four decades during the latter half of the 20th century, Poland and its people were the subjects of a grand socio-economic experiment. Under the watchful eye of its Soviet …
similar scenario played out in industry and handicrafts, where private output decreased from 21 percent … private enterprise be permitted in retail trade, handicrafts, services, and small-scale production. Though …
