arts and crafts

1. 1.

   the arts of decorative design and handicraft

   “they sponsored arts and crafts in order to encourage craftsmanship in an age of mass production”

   Broaderart

   Narrowerhandicraft

   plural

Questions about arts and crafts

What does arts and crafts mean?

arts and crafts means "the arts of decorative design and handicraft".

Is arts and crafts a common word?

arts and crafts is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.