creating from raw materials

Questions about creating from raw materials

What does creating from raw materials mean?

creating from raw materials means "the act of creating something that is different from the materials that went into it".

Is creating from raw materials a common word?

creating from raw materials 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.