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Craft Education

Art Education

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Overview

Craft education develops hand skills, design thinking and respect for work through making useful and beautiful objects.

Key points

Gandhi’s Nai Talim placed productive craft at the centre of learning.
NEP 2020 introduces vocational exposure from Grade 6.
Craft builds fine motor skills, patience and problem solving.
Local crafts connect learners to community knowledge.
Design balances function and aesthetics.
Recycled materials teach sustainability.

Explanation

Visits to artisans show real processes.
Safety with tools is essential.
Crafts integrate with mathematics (measurement, symmetry).
Respect for manual work is a value.
Exhibitions and fairs celebrate craft.

Step by step

Identify the art concept, medium or movement asked.
Recall the definition, artist, period or technique.
Choose the option that matches the visual or pedagogical principle.

Examples

Making paper bags from newspapers → recycling craft.
Weaving a mat with bamboo strips → traditional skill.
Measuring and folding origami → maths link.

Traps and advanced points

Trap: Treating craft as low-status.
Trap: Unsafe tool use.
Trap: Copying without design thinking.

Quick revision

Nai Talim.
Vocational from Grade 6.
Function + aesthetics.

Practice MCQs

Bidriware, metal inlay work in silver on a dark alloy, is associated with
1. Cuttack
2. Pipili
3. Bidar
4. Moradabad only
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Answer: (c) Bidar. The alloy is mainly zinc.
Channapatna is famous for
1. lacquered wooden toys
2. silver filigree
3. ikat sarees
4. papier-mâché
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Answer: (a) lacquered wooden toys. It is in Karnataka.
Papier-mâché craft is especially associated with
1. Goa
2. Kerala
3. Odisha only
4. Kashmir
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Answer: (d) Kashmir. Paper pulp is moulded and painted.
Pots are shaped on a —
1. loom
2. potter’s wheel
3. easel
4. lathe for metal
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Answer: (b) potter’s wheel. The wheel spins the clay while it is shaped by hand.
Dhokra is a craft of —
1. bamboo weaving
2. metal casting
3. glass painting
4. paper cutting
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Answer: (b) metal casting. Tribal non-ferrous metal casting by the lost-wax method.
Kalamkari is a traditional craft of —
1. hand-painted or block-printed textiles
2. stone carving
3. brass lamps
4. terracotta toys
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Answer: (a) hand-painted or block-printed textiles. Mainly from Andhra Pradesh; "kalam" means pen.

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