rural crafts

It also encourages and markets rural crafts, for those able to create them.

Agriculture was the mainstay of the community, although most other rural crafts had disappeared.

Some add skills such as beekeeping and path laying to the list of rural crafts.

Their respective folk art and rural crafts are playing an important role in the development of their clothes.

Black artists, by contrast, were viewed as practitioners of traditional, rural crafts, like woodcarving.

C1 Japan's ancient rural crafts have an American defender.

Outside of politics, Thomas' interests include restoring old buildings, traditional rural crafts and Italy.

Hurdles are a form of rural crafts.

A survey of Sierra families in the early 1980s found, however, that fewer than 10 percent earned any of their income from traditional rural crafts.

She was also interested in traditional cottage furnishings and rural crafts, and concerned that they were disappearing.

Set up as a community project with the aim of improving education in agriculture, horticulture and rural crafts for people living in the area.

She is now recognized throughout Japan for her dedication to preserving and venerating what has been rapidly disappearing here: traditional rural crafts.

Together they stake out a wide territory, ranging from 19th-century landscape painting to 20th-century rural crafts to spectacular American Indian work.

The term is also sometimes used to describe any type of flexible rod used in rural crafts such as hazel or ash.

A piece from 1911 warns that hedging and ditching are among the rural crafts "which run considerable danger of being neglected".

Rural crafts refers to the traditional crafts production that is carried on, simply for everyday practical use, in the agricultural countryside.

Examples of rural crafts would be:

The house contains a collection of bygones relating to the rural crafts and living style of Ryedale.

The farm also runs workshops in rural crafts through its resident artisans; blacksmith, woodworker and potter.

Magh Mela at Sriniketan is basically a fair displaying rural crafts.

They include aerobatic displays, rural crafts, trade stands, and a motor safari which make the event of interest, not just to equestrian enthusiasts.

Nearby at Arlingtoll Mill museum you can see a display of rural crafts many of which are no longer practised.

They might visit beautiful local towns, tour iconic British homes and monuments or gain hands on experience of traditional rural crafts and pursuits.

The organisation sought to revive traditional rural crafts which were threatened by the mechanisation of production and by increasing urbanization.

Of the six Victorian oasts, three are now used as museums containing exhibits of rural crafts, hop-growing and processing.