as in crafts
an occupation requiring skillful use of the hands
we learned about traditional handcrafts like barrel-making and leather-working at the colonial history museum
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Recent Examples of handcrafts
Audrey Lee,
Architectural Digest,
18 June 2026
An introverted child, Ortiz grew up enjoying painting and handcrafts, as well as having an interest in engineering and how things are built.
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Carlos Aguilar,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Apr. 2026
Founded by master independent Rexhep Rexhepi, the Swiss atelier handcrafts fewer than 30 watches a year—most, if not all, of which are fitted with complex mechanical complications.
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Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
14 Mar. 2026
These nation-wide country-goes-city celebrations of agricultural bounty, mechanical innovations and skilled handcrafts have been drawing crowds since the first fair was held in upstate New York in 1841.
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Chadd Scott,
Forbes.com,
27 Aug. 2025
The luxury boot brand uses real leather and handcrafts every pair of boots.
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Nick Harris,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
15 Aug. 2025
Don’t be surprised if you’re lured into boutiques purveying exclusive fashions, vintage jewelry, handcrafts, décor, artisanal foods, and art.
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Kelsy Chauvin,
Condé Nast Traveler,
5 May 2025
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Linoto handcrafts all their offerings in upstate New York with high-quality Italian and Belgian linen—their sheets have made our list of the best linen bedding for years.
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Audrey Lee,
Architectural Digest,
18 June 2026
An introverted child, Ortiz grew up enjoying painting and handcrafts, as well as having an interest in engineering and how things are built.
—
Carlos Aguilar,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Apr. 2026
Founded by master independent Rexhep Rexhepi, the Swiss atelier handcrafts fewer than 30 watches a year—most, if not all, of which are fitted with complex mechanical complications.
—
Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
14 Mar. 2026
These nation-wide country-goes-city celebrations of agricultural bounty, mechanical innovations and skilled handcrafts have been drawing crowds since the first fair was held in upstate New York in 1841.
—
Chadd Scott,
Forbes.com,
27 Aug. 2025
The luxury boot brand uses real leather and handcrafts every pair of boots.
—
Nick Harris,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
15 Aug. 2025
Don’t be surprised if you’re lured into boutiques purveying exclusive fashions, vintage jewelry, handcrafts, décor, artisanal foods, and art.
—
Kelsy Chauvin,
Condé Nast Traveler,
5 May 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for handcrafts
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Gnome Apothecary crafts small-batch herbal medicines in the Hudson Valley that honor the wisdom of plants, support everyday wellness, and deepen the relationship between people and the natural world.
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Explore unique crafts, goods and gifts from over 15 local vendors.
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The company that manufactures the hardware powering the AI revolution acknowledges that the technology is more expensive than the people it was supposed to augment.
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His company Fanatics manufactures licensed apparel for the NFL, including Kelce's team, the Kansas City Chiefs.
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Yvonne and Nick’s disastrous wedding dinner is the day the cast went from nobodies to actual practitioners of the reality-television arts and sciences.
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But the sections that can be read between gaps where the surface is lost point to a philosophical treatise on ethics, arts and human nature.
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As Sullivan pieces those holdovers from the previous regime together with his first full free agency class in 2027 and a second draft class, the roster could really start to come together in another year.
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Bieber poses in matching bras and underwear with little beyond the seamless background, straightforward lighting and the cotton pieces themselves in the frame.
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Other textures considered, Dulude-De Celles also fashions a film about exile and estrangement and sacrificing one’s identity in pursuit of self-preservation, about what a place can do to people.
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The collision of genres fashions a delicate niche, but Planet X’s most striking moments are its most deconstructed.
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The state’s Holocaust Education Bill, passed in 1994, requires every school district to teach the Holocaust with the explicit aim of building tolerance, nurturing democratic values, and confronting what indifference produces.
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Scan your face, train your voice on a few prompts, write (or accept a brand’s) creative brief, and the content produces itself.
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The startup takes existing waste such as rice husks, turns them into further mush and then molds them into things like forks and spoons.
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The heat of your hands molds it into shape, and a quick rinse with cold soapy water resets it.
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The Yale startup, which constructs quantum computers, was acquired in January for $550 million by D-Wave, a leading quantum business based in Palo Alto, Calif.
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The mRNA is then read by a piece of molecular machinery called the ribosome, which constructs the protein — a process called translation.
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“Handcrafts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/handcrafts. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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