Craft histories focus on the stories and documentation of craft workers, practices, objects, and spaces.
What is Craft?
Center for Craft, Asheville NC:
"Craft is a particular approach to making with a strong connection to materials, skill, and process. Artists, makers, scholars, and curators continue to grow the field, embracing new definitions, technologies, and ideas while honoring craft's history and relationship to the handmade."
Glenn Adamson, The Invention of Craft:
"Whenever a skilled person makes something with their hands, that's craft."
The Afro-American Tradition in Decorative Arts by 
The American Quilt: A History of Cloth and Comfort, 1750-1950 by 
Carolina Clay by 
Contemporary Crafts and the Saxe Collection by 
Craft by 
Hear Me Now by 
Ideal Home, 1900-1920 by 
The Invention of Craft by 
Makers: A History of American Studio Craft by 
Nation Building by 
The Nature of Craft and the Penland Experience by 
A New Deal for Navajo Weaving by 
The Quilt : A History and Celebration of an American Art Form by 
Revivals! Diverse Traditions by 
String, Felt, Thread by The following record groups / collections contain documentation related to craft:
Building Operations
Decorative Arts and Design
Education Programming
Library Department Records
Curatorial Exhibition Files
Registrar's Exhibition Files
Louisiana Purchase Exposition Art Department Records - Applied Arts
St. Louis School and Museum of Fine Arts
University City Pottery Research Collection
The following craft-related exhibitions occurred at the City Art Museum / Saint Louis Art Museum:
A Collection of Handicraft Work, June 1, 1913
Modern American Handicraft, assembled by the Dayton Art Institute, January 1-31, 1926
American Rooms in Miniature by Mrs. James Ward Thorne, April 8-June 20, 1944
Designer-Craftsmen U.S.A., July 15-August 15, 1953
The Artist/Craftsman, April 11-30, 1972
The Afro-American Tradition in Decorative Arts, April 20-June 3, 1979
By Heart and Hand: American Folk Art from Missouri Collections, February 24-May 28, 1984
Hear My Quilt: 150 Years of African American Quilt Making, October 13, 1992-February 28, 1993
[African-American Quilt Scholar Cuesta Benberry co-curated this exhibition]
Contemporary Crafts and the Saxe Collection, December 17, 1993-February 13, 1994
