Industry is small scale in nature - mostly handicrafts and fish processing.
The major sources of revenue are the sale of postage stamps to collectors and the sale of handicrafts to passing ships.
In all kinds of handicrafts and mechanical work the Japanese are experts.
Minutely painted figures of Cupids, engaged in a variety of handicraftsand arts, fill up the small spaces in the framework.
Five years later, in 1699, new letters patent were granted, permitting the establishment of art manufactures and handicrafts in the house and inclosure of the hospital brothers of Montreal.
Not being carried on intensively, these handicraftscould never lead to exploitation and overwork.
In these schools were taught, in addition to domestic science and agriculture, various domestic handicrafts that offered the women a pleasant and useful activity during the long winters.
Through Allen Eaton's knowledge of handicrafts and his untiring efforts a great service has been rendered the mountain people of the Blue Ridge in marketing their wares.
Much has been written on the subject of handicrafts but perhaps the most comprehensive treatment of the diversified subject is Allen Eaton's Handicrafts of the Southern Highlands.
He would have young people taught "such handicrafts as they had a turn for as a part of their education, the discipline of their minds and bodies; and adults would also have opportunities of learning in the same schools.
Industry is small scale in nature--mostly handicrafts and fish processing.
The handicrafts to be promoted must be those which will give scope to the native genius and aesthetic sense.
Whatever latent capacity for artistic handicrafts the Irish peasant may possess, it is very rarely that one finds any spontaneous attempt to give outward expression to the inward aesthetic sense.
All the old handicrafts are coming back again, and ere long we shall be as proud as the maids in Revolutionary times of our hand-spun and hand-woven fabrics.
An elaborate book for girls, by Lina and Adelia Beard whose former books on girls' sports have become classic, which contains a mass of practical instruction on handicrafts and recreations.
We have had practical experience in the actual working out of all the various handicrafts and recreations, and therefore give only that which we know can be well and easily done by the average girl.
With the oldhandicrafts coming back into favor and new ones constantly being brought forward, a girl's life may be full of delightful employment.
What we have described as applicable to all the handicrafts of the middle ages, was so especially to the art of coining.
One familiar with the history of these times is surprised to see the readiness with which the Spanish adventurers turned their hands to various trades and handicrafts usually requiring a long apprenticeship.
Every man in Peru was expected to be acquainted with the varioushandicrafts essential to domestic comfort.
He has been a member of the executive committee of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild of Montreal, holding the office in 1908.
Mrs. Lighthall is vice president of the local branch of the Zenana Bible and Medical Mission, and is also a vice president of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild.
Much has been said of late about the necessity of introducing the handicrafts in the open country in winter with the idea of providing work for farm people during that season.
Thus in the earliest Rome, as everywhere, the arts of forging and of wielding the ploughshare and the sword went hand in hand, and there was nothing of that arrogant contempt for handicrafts which we afterwards meet with there.
Every guild would think itself dishonored by admitting a Jew as a member; therefore, in almost every country, the Hebrews are debarred from handicrafts and mechanical arts.
To commence to learn handicrafts and agriculture could not be expected of men advanced in years.
A good share of the daily attention of those who were engaged in the handicrafts was still perforce given to the pecuniary or business side of their trade.
Our standing illustrations of this less highly organised class of industries are the surviving handicrafts and the common run of farming as carried on by relatively small proprietors.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "handicrafts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
