Rural crafts

 ( Cultural Geography ) 

Rural crafts refers to the traditional crafts production that is carried on, simply for everyday practical use, in the agricultural countryside. Once widespread and commonplace, the survival of some rural crafts is threatened in the 21st century.Mapping Heritage Craft' (Nov. 2012)

Rural crafts are not considered part of handicraft, as they are produced for a practical means, and not for leisure. As they are a part of a general and simple set of skills that are easily learned, they have not been produced for sale by an artisan class of makers.

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Examples Examples of goods and activities produced by rural crafts would be:

• Basket weaving
• Boat building
• Building cob walls
• Dry-stone wall
• Building wattles
• Charcoal
• Coppicing
• and Fishing rod
• Hay
• Hedge laying
• Hurdles and
• Walkway laying
• Pottery
• Spinning yarn

Rural crafts will tend to vary in their styles from place to place, and will thus often contribute strongly to a sense of place.

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As a job Offering training courses in, and demonstrations of, rural crafts is now becoming a viable job in some parts of the United Kingdom.

Rural crafts are distinguished from the "rustic" handicraft goods often seen in rural gift shops, such as at General store.

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See also

• Aristaeus (ancient Greek god of rural crafts)
• Craft

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Further reading

• ' Mapping Heritage Craft', a UK research report of November 2012
• E. J. Stowe. Crafts of the Countryside. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1948
• Seymour, John The Forgotten Arts. London: Dorling Kindersley, 1984
• --do.-- The Forgotten Arts and Crafts. London: Dorling Kindersley, 2001

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