Find Out About Handicrafts And Some Unique Types Of Handicraft Products

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What is Handicraft?

Handicraft (also known as artisanry or handmade) refers to products made entirely by hand with the help of simple tools. In other words, handicraft product is the result from the hand of artisan. They show off the beauty of traditional craftsmanship and techniques; they were not created by mass production of machines.

 

Handicraft products – handicraft are designed to meet practical use and are mostly aesthetic. Therefore, valuable handicraft products require both dexterity and patience from artisans. Many handicrafts use natural materials (most of them indigenous), while others are crafted from non-traditional materials such as recycled industrial materials (paper or aqua sculpture). crystal). Handicraft materials commonly found are: natural fibers, fabrics, ceramics, stones, native plants. Through typical materials, Handicraft – Handicraft divided into many different categories.

 

Similar to folk arts, handicraft products – handicraft have traditional cultural meanings, even religious features. Many types of handicrafts that are hundreds of years old in residential communities (such as traditional craft villages) are gradually being revived even if they are lost, at the same time, many new handicrafts are being opened. waterfall, gaining popularity and becoming popular. It can be said that Handicraft – Handicraft is an important part in the field of production, art and design.

 



Some unique types of traditional handicrafts

Through typical materials, handicraft – handicraft is divided into many diversified types, one of them has a long history of development in parallel with the development of human culture. They can be listed as: traditional weaving and embroidery, rattan, ceramic art, doll making, sculpture, calligraphy, paper folding …

 

2.1. Making jewelry:

We can see many forms such as jewelry made from bones or shells of animals (shell rings, …), bark or most commonly, metal materials (copper, gold, silver…) combined with rocks. From there, create beautiful designs such as earrings, necklaces, and necklaces. Not only that, with unlimited creativity, jewelry can completely be unique and strange.




                                          

2.2. String Art

A network of ropes wrapped around the nail system is fastened on a flat board or plate. Lines are created when the string is wound around two nails; lines when intersecting and changing angles slightly differently after forming a slight curve; from simple curves designed to complex forms like patterns and letters …

 

String Art was invented by Mary Everest Boole in the late 19th century, applying the principle of the Bézier curve. String Art began to be widely popularized as a form of Handicraft Decoration in the late 1960s.

 





2.3. Quilling Art

This is an art form that uses curled or twisted strips of paper and glued together to create designs. There is much debate about the origin of this art. During the Renaissance, French and Italian monks used torn edges in bibles and curled goose feathers to decorate religious objects and paintings. The use of goose feathers has become the term Quilling Art. In the 18th century, Quilling Art became popular in Europe as the private art fad and entertainment hobby of young ladies. This art was popular up to the 1800s but disappeared gradually in the late 1800s. Later, the nomads brought this art to America again, going through many stages of renaissance to this day. as a unique decorative form on greeting cards, picture frames, paper models …

 


2.4. Ball twist

Pattern of ball or twisted ball is said to be one of the special types of Handicraft – Handicraft. This is the formation of vivid patterns (usually animals) when twisting and squeezing into different positions on the ball. There are two main types of ball twists, the “single ball pattern” – a pattern made up of a single ball and a “double ball pattern” – that uses multiple twisted bubbles to link into a pattern.

 


Vietnamese Handicrafts

Vietnamese handicrafts have a precious traditional capital for a long time, associated with the names of craft villages and trade streets spread across the country. Initially, the side jobs took advantage of the free time, developed into the need to exchange goods and seek income outside of farming. Crafts are selected and easy to develop on a personal scale and then expand into family scale. Gradually, the handicrafts were spread among the craftsmen’s families, then spread to spread and develop in the whole village, or many neighboring villages according to the principle of craft transmission.

 

Due to the different benefits brought by handicrafts, each village began to differentiate. Professions that bring great benefits are gradually developed, whereas jobs that are of low efficiency or not suitable for the village will gradually disappear. From then on, it began to form craft villages specializing in a single profession, such as pottery village, mat village, silk village, wood carving village, bronze village …

 

Although many traditional craft villages have disappeared over time, at present, the statistics show that Vietnam still has nearly 2,000 craft villages belonging to 12 main product groups: garment, rattan, bamboo, sedge and water hyacinth products, ceramics, wood carving, lacquerware, embroideries, stone carving, handmade weaving, craft paper, art paintings, metals and other handicraft products group. Famous craft villages that cannot be ignored are Lam Xuan sedge mat Village, Quang Tri; Tho Ha Pottery Village, Bac Giang; Phu Lang Pottery Village, Bac Ninh; Bat Trang’s pottery; Village inlaid with gold kneel Kieu Ky; Ninh Van stone art village, Ninh Binh; Dong Ho folk painting village; Ha Dong silk village; Nha Xa silk; Dai Bai bronze casting village, Bac Ninh; Lai Afternoon incense village …

 

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