What's the difference between craftsmanship and handicraft?

Craftsmanship


Definition:

  • (n.) The work of a craftsman.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Adly in particular, he said, was highly respected in Misrata for his craftsmanship.
  • (2) It was hard not to think of a world of Duchy Original buildings nurtured in the flowerbeds of Highgrove and fed with organic concepts and craftsmanship.
  • (3) This decision shows that, with a stable and solid business environment, Slovakia is an attractive place for investors, and the marriage of Slovak craftsmanship and British engineering holds great promise.
  • (4) The craftsmanship reminds me of Lisbon's pavements, except it's too perfect.
  • (5) Although Unesco is best known for designating world heritage sites such as the Great Wall of China, the agency also recommends safeguarding the intangible heritage represented by traditions and oral expressions, rituals and festive events, traditional craftsmanship, music, dances and traditional performing arts.
  • (6) As well as reality orientation, guided social interaction, physical activity, dance therapy and craftsmanship, important elements include transport, home assessment and follow-up visits.
  • (7) While fashion has never been an industry to fret about cost, high-end style usually involves hand-finished, artisinal craftsmanship and natural materials such as silk and leather.
  • (8) It is also a bold assertion about the place of skill, craftsmanship and beauty in the making of art, which sets Hockney gloriously at odds with much of art's recent past.
  • (9) The latest additions include a Mongolian camel coaxing ritual, bagpipe culture in Slovakia and Tinian marble craftsmanship in Greece.
  • (10) The greatest characters we create, the greatest moments of art or craftsmanship we are able to have come from a place of self-worth."
  • (11) Design is minimalist but there are splashes of Moroccan craftsmanship.
  • (12) In our current day world of zero-hours contracts, celebrity, Twitter, spin and all that, both shows’ commitment to the values and meaning of craftsmanship and skill is a refreshing contrast and a core part of their appeal.
  • (13) "The actual writing, the craftsmanship, was Stieg's.
  • (14) They're a last hurrah for hand-drawn 2D animation in an age of CGI, and there's a strain running through Ghibli that's reminiscent of vintage Disney: an emphasis on craftsmanship, a cultural nostalgia and a perfectly pitched sentimentalism.
  • (15) High-end retailers and the luxury sector can appear to exist outside of this system – shielded by ideas like craftsmanship and design, but behind the gloss is the same dirt.
  • (16) It's very beautiful and the craftsmanship that went into it is mindblowing.
  • (17) Indeed, the prince referred to craftsmanship as an element lacking in modern architecture, which might be true, yet failed to explain how the common or garden architect might be expected to pay for craft when the budgets of most contemporary buildings have been, increasingly, slashed to the bare structural bones.
  • (18) While the factory itself is shiny, new and packed with new technology, the work that goes on here hinges on some old-fashioned craftsmanship.
  • (19) Wrecking Ball is that beautiful realisation of craftsmanship, bloody-minded business and heart.
  • (20) "We're not in a golden age of audiophile excellence and craftsmanship," complains Thomas.

Handicraft


Definition:

  • (n.) A trade requiring skill of hand; manual occupation; handcraft.
  • (n.) A man who earns his living by handicraft; a handicraftsman.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) So our house is open to visitors, and you are always welcome.” A few weeks after we left, the Gregório river oveflowed, wiping out five villages, destroying four years worth of handicrafts and carpentry and leaving hundreds of people homeless.
  • (2) In the rooms used for handicraft lessons numerous articles of pottery were on display.
  • (3) Our guide was grateful for our tips and delivered us to traders hawking locally made handicrafts.
  • (4) Despite the jail's grim exterior, the regime is fairly liberal and inmates earn extra cash by selling food, handicrafts - and drug ballads.
  • (5) The new buildings are a dramatic contrast to the muted colours and elaborate handicrafts that adorned the homes of Afghanistan's traditional elite, hidden behind high, plain walls.
  • (6) Many of the handicraft shops have closed in Karimabad , a beautiful town 14 miles south of the lake that boasts a 15-century fort with sweeping views of the valley below.
  • (7) Local handicrafts include flower arrangements made from fish scales.
  • (8) Another shop owner who sells handicrafts is pinning his hope to an influx of foreign tourists.
  • (9) This double rejection leaves many children frustrated and depressed, and creates inter-family problems.” Oaxaca is the second poorest state in Mexico; two-thirds of its population live in poverty, and the poorest of the poor are concentrated amid the spectacular mountains of the Mixteca region where indigenous Mixteca and Triqui communities live in isolated valleys, eking out a living from subsistence farming and traditional handicrafts.
  • (10) Nigi Nigi Nu Noos has Balinese-style bamboo cottages furnished with handicrafts and wooden sculptures.
  • (11) Environmental monitoring during lost wax casting in jewelry handicrafts was performed for gold, silver, zinc and copper by means of personal samplers and ICP-AAS techniques were used for determining airborne metals.
  • (12) This solution has the advantage of an easy dosage of the number of calories and of grams of nitrogen to administer; it also decreases the risks of bacterial contamination from "handicraft" mixing and excessive manipulations.
  • (13) The other focused on handicrafts and non-emotionally challenging activities.
  • (14) Since John Hunter first applied the scientific approach to surgery in the late 18th century, it has been raised from the humble level of a handicraft to a highly experimental science.
  • (15) Surgical educators should address the science of surgical handicraft in a manner similar to the science of preoperative and postoperative surgical principles that have been espoused over the past 40 years.
  • (16) 77%, underwent vocational training in a recognized training occupation, the others in line with section 48 BBiG (vocational education act) or section 42 b HwO (handicrafts ordinance) to reduced requirements.
  • (17) A study of 66 adults in the handicraft and skill-training centres attached to the blind schools indicated that the principal predisposing factors of blindness were mitch (30%), smallpox (15%), cataract (12%), and traditional eye medicine (11%).
  • (18) Photograph by Mathias Braschler and Monika Fischer The Arena da Amazonia stadium has been designed in the shape of an indigenous basket in a supposed show of respect to Indian culture, but the community have been denied permission to sell their handicrafts at the venue.
  • (19) Decades ago the American economist William Baumol defined certain sectors as being “handicraft industries” (health, education, the performing arts) that were disproportionately reliant on people rather than machinery, and as such with limited productivity gains.
  • (20) The transition to industrial therapy following a preparatory period in a handicraft work therapeutic unit constitutes for the patients a decisive step from rehabilitation in a hospital to other rehabilitation facilities.

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