What are the types of handicrafts

1, paper-cutting: Chinese paper-cutting is a kind of scissors or carving knife in the paper cut pattern, used to decorate life or with other folk activities of folk art. In China, paper-cutting has a broad mass base, intermingled with the social life of the people of all ethnic groups, is an important part of various folk activities.

The visual images and modeling formats inherited from the past contain rich cultural and historical information, express the social cognition, moral concepts, practical experience, ideals of life and aesthetic interests of the general public, and have multiple social values, such as cognition, indoctrination, expression, lyricism, entertainment and communication.

2, embroidery: embroidery is a needle and thread embroidered on the fabric of a variety of decorative patterns of the general term. Embroidery is divided into silk thread embroidery and feather embroidery two kinds. It is a needle will be silk thread or other fibers, yarns to a certain pattern and color in the embroidery material piercing, to the embroidery marks constitute a pattern of decorative fabrics. It is an art of adding human designs and productions to any fabric in existence using needles and threads.

Embroidery is one of the traditional Chinese folk handicrafts with at least 2,000 to 3,000 years of history in China. There are four main types of Chinese embroidery: Suzhou embroidery, Hunan embroidery, Shu embroidery and Cantonese embroidery. The techniques of embroidery include: wrong needle embroidery, messy needle embroidery, net embroidery, full-ground embroidery, locking silk, nashi, najin, flat gold, shadow gold, pan gold, paving velvet, scraping velvet, poking yarn, sprinkling thread, picking flowers, etc. The uses of embroidery mainly include life and art decoration, such as clothing, bedding, tablecloths, stage, and artwork decoration.

3, clay sculpture, commonly known as "color sculpture" clay art is a traditional Chinese folk an ancient common folk art. That is, with clay molded into a variety of images of a folk craft. Production method is in the clay mixed with a little cotton fiber, pounded, pinched into a variety of characters made of clay blanks, after drying, coated with primer, and then apply color painting. Clay as raw material, hand-made shapes, or plain or colored, mainly figures, animals. Clay sculpture in folklore is commonly known as "color sculpture", "mud play".