Importance of Handicraft version2

           Define the concept ‘handicraft’.

        > When we define "handicraft" it is making decorative products using your hand. No machine is used in making the product.

·       Identify the three basic elements of handicraft.  Provide a brief description of what you know about each basic element.

         > The three basic elements of handicraft that I think is that it is the design, raw materials and attitude towards the craft.

         * Design, everything in the handicraft world is all about the design in the craft.

         * Raw Materials, the raw materials are the most needed in making the product in which it is the most essential.

·       For each type of handicraft, list at least two names of handicraft you are most interested in or that you would like to learn more.  You may include handicrafts that you know but are not in the list (Table 1).

Table1.Types of Handicrafts

Material	Technique		Product
Bamboo craft Coconut shell craft Fiber craft (coir, abaca, piña) Leather craft Metal craft Rattan craft Shell craft Woodcraft	Appliqué Batik printing Carving Collage Crochet Cross-stitch Decoupage Embroidery Etching Knitting	Macramé Origami* Paper tolle Silk-screen printing Smocking Tatting Tie-Dyeing* Weaving   (loom, card, spool)	Bag making Basketry Ceramics Flower making Papier-mâché* Pottery Quilt* Quill* Toy craft

*the technique and the product have the same name

Material	Technique	Product
1.Leather Craft	1.Macrame'	1.Bag Making
2.	2.Knitting	2.Bag Making

Before the next lesson, read or listen to your entry and revise your answers if necessary.

Importance of Handicraft

How do handicrafts promote the way of life or culture of a place?

> How? It's hard to answer but for me, handicraft promotes the way of life or the tradition and culture of that certain place or region. It promotes the natural resources of that place and the materials that are used in the handicraft. It can also be the reason for the tourist or the people to remember that place.

·       In what ways do entrepreneurship or the entrepreneurs help preserve culture and traditions? 

     > In what way? The entrepreneurs can promote the product and can also preserve culture and tradition by promoting the products in the foreign and local customers. This will also be an eye opener to everyone in such that culture and tradition exist in that certain place.

  

    In what ways do handicraft industries help the entrepreneurs, artisans and the country as a whole?

    > First, handicraft industries can first help the artisan by offering them a job which is making the handicraft. When the products are done, the entrepreneurs can then purchase it so that they can sell it on local stores or maybe they can export it. In an overall outcome of it, they can also help promote the countries tourism and they can also help in the economy. They attract tourist that will purchase their product which will add to our countries money or they have to pay tax or the vat in each product. They are benefiting from each other in a manner that it's in a good way.

·       Are there handicrafts that are not suited for boys? Or for girls? What are the reasons and instances behind this perception? Is this kind of thinking productive?

    > There is no handicraft that is not suited for boys and girls. Everyone is welcome to do any handicraft as long as they have the patience, determination and skills in doing so. This perception is an old point of view because in this generation, everyone is equal. Whatever a man can do, women can do it also. This kind of perception will not help our country from being productive.

  Do I know what a handicraft is?
               

     >  Handicraft is an art which you make products or any decorative products that hand is only used.
     

     Do I own a handcrafted item? What handicraft/s do we have in our house?

>Yes, I owned a handicraft item. We owned a chandelier like shell decorative in our house. It is hanged in the garage along with a hand crafted lamp which is also hanged in the middle of the ceiling in the garage.

       Do I like to use handicraft items? What are my reasons for using handicrafts?

       >I like using handicraft items but when the time passes, the product definitely destroy itself or "magabok". My purpose of using handicraft is that it is cheaper than the products that are made of high end brands. It also help the environment.

     Do I have parents or relatives who have the skills in doing handicrafts?  What can I learn from them? (If possible, ask your parents)

        > I have a sister that can make a handicraft product because she also studied the same course that I am taking right now. I can learn the basic steps in making the product or any handicraft.

       What handicrafts can I do?

         > The handicrafts that I can do is stitching, metalwork and other handicraft activities that I know that will only use hand.

    What are my skills and talents that may help me in doing handicrafts?

         > The skills and talents that I have that may help in doing handicraft is that I am hardworking, I have patience and creativity.

       Do I have the passion to learn skills in handicraft?

              > Yes, I have the passion to learn skills in handicraft. That's why I took up this course so that I can absorbed the skills and devotion of doing the projects in this course.

    Do I envision myself being an expert in one handicraft technique? Or entrepreneur for handicraft products?

               > Yes, I can envision myself in being an expert in one handicraft technique, because I took up this course and I know that all the techniques that will be used will be used in the near future or in my future.
                 > Yes, I can envision myself being an entrepreneur for handicraft products because first of all I want to be an entrepreneur. I want to be a skilled entrepreneur which will make her own product to sell because there are only few people who knows about handicraft works and its purpose in art and daily living.