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Craft, Sculpture & Material Arts
Choose media, materials, and making techniques for sculpture, ceramics, woodworking, metalwork, textiles, and paper craft.
Classification
The primary entry for media in which a work is realized as sculpture, modeled form, or relief.
The primary entry for media in which a work is realized as embroidery, weaving, knitting, felt, or other fiber art.
The primary entry for craft media such as paper craft, mosaic, stained glass, and assembled work.
Connects to constituent materials for fiber work, including thread, cloth, and felt.
Connects to wood-based materials used to construct carving and woodworking pieces.
Connects to metals, foils, and wire that constitute metalwork and sculptural pieces.
Mineral, ceramic and glass materials
Connects to inorganic materials such as stone, clay, ceramic, and glass used in craft and three-dimensional work.
Sculpting and modeling techniques
Connects to operations that make three-dimensional form, such as carving, shaping, molding, and casting.
Connects to textile-making operations such as embroidery, weaving, knitting, and dyeing.
Paper craft and folding techniques
Connects to paper-craft operations such as folding, cutting, pasting, and assembly.















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Paper material
A making material formed from fibers into thin sheets.
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Embroidery
A textile embellishment technique characterized by thread stitches, directional sheen, and raised marks on cloth.
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Mosaic assembly
A assembly technique characterized by repeated small pieces, joints, and segmented color fields.
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Paper cutting
A cutting technique characterized by cut contours, positive-negative shapes, and layered paper.
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Paper folding
A forming technique characterized by creases, angular planes, and forms made from a sheet.
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Screen printing
A stencil-printing technique characterized by hard-edged color fields, few colors, and layer-by-layer overprint.
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Stained glass
A finished medium characterized by colored glass pieces, lead divisions, and transmitted light.
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Digital stencil duplicator printing
A printing process characterized by few ink colors, registration shifts, halftones, and overprint.
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Woodblock printing
A relief-printing process characterized by printing from raised carved wood with block-shaped lines and fields.
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