(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.
Handwork
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) We conclude that the production of handworked ceramics could lead to an increased risk of lead absorption in children, particularly those who live with workers from this sector.
(2) "The advances we achieve through technology don't always make us competitive in manufacturing where handwork is a large part of the process.