Busacca Gallery

Arts and craft tray: Decorative copper tray and hand made in the arts and crafts style. Made by a great artisan, in the ancient tradition of copper-making, it reflects the warmth and shadings of the roaring fire used in its making. constructed from a single sheet of high quality copper. Charming and highly decorative, it expresses simple, rustic elegance -- a great accent piece to any home decor. This is signed

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Arts and crafts comprise a whole host of activities and hobbies that are related to making things with one's own hands and skill. These can be sub-divided into handicrafts or "traditional crafts" (doing things the old way) and "the rest". Some crafts have been practised for centuries, while others are modern inventions, or popularisations of crafts which were originally practised in a very small geographic area. Most crafts require a combination of skill, speed, and patience, but they can also be learnt on a more basic level by virtually anyone. Many community centres and schools run evening or day classes and workshops offering to teach basic craft skills in a short period of time. Many of these crafts become extremely popular for brief periods of time (a few months, or a few years), spreading rapidly among the crafting population as everyone emulates the first examples, then their popularity wanes until a later resurgence.