United States · Fine-Art-Adjacent Workshop Craft (paper engineering / wearable art)
No single standardized US term documented
The design and hand-fabrication of water-resistant earrings and bangles from recycled newspaper and cardboard by American designer Luda, working under the name Alla Maude in Long Beach, New York, part of the same wider international coiled/compressed cardboard jewelry movement documented in Italy, Germany, Austria, and Spain. Luda's work ranges stylistically from colorfully modern pieces to rustic, earthy bangles that closely resemble natural wood in finished appearance, with all pieces specifically engineered for water resistance -- a documented practical durability concern shared, in various forms (natural resin coating, protective varnish), across several practitioners in this wider technique family.
Risk level: Stable · Not applicable — a contemporary design practice
Dolls hand-formed from dried corn husks, deliberately made without a face, taught to children alongside a Three Sisters origin legend warning against vanity and self-regard — a distinct and openly shared craft, separate from any restricted…
The cutting, drilling, and stringing of white and purple beads from quahog clam and whelk shell into belts and strings that serve as the Haudenosaunee Confederacy's living historical, legal, and diplomatic record, predating and central to…
The carving and engraved-line (scrimshaw) decoration of walrus tusk ivory into tools, cribbage boards, figures, and jewelry, a long-standing coastal Alaska Native craft that occupies a distinct legal category in US federal law: walrus…
The construction of a large, open, wood-framed boat covered with stitched bearded seal or walrus skin, historically the primary vessel for whaling and large-scale marine mammal hunting and cargo transport among coastal Iñupiat and other…
Kapa is the traditional Native Hawaiian barkcloth, made almost entirely from the inner bark of the wauke (paper mulberry) tree through a labor-intensive process of stripping, soaking, fermenting, and repeated beating that transforms bast…
'Ahu'ula ('red garment') refers to the feathered cloaks and capes that stood as the most sacred and politically significant objects of pre-contact Hawaiian material culture — constructed entirely by hand from plant fiber netting and the…
The French binding style (reliure à la française) — full leather cover over sewn text block with tight back, marbled endpapers, and gilt tooling — established Paris as the world capital of decorative bookbinding from the 17th century.
Tibetan woodblock printing of texts by a two-person hand method: one person inks the carved block, the other applies the paper and rubs.
A nearly 2,000-year-old bark-paper making technique in which inner tree bark is boiled with lime and ash, then hand-pounded on a wooden board with a flat stone into a single continuous sheet, preserved after the Spanish colonial…
The Viennese bookbinding tradition — the production of the distinctive full leather bindings with gold-tooled decoration that were the defining luxury book objects of the Habsburg Imperial court library, and the broader tradition of fine…
Vessels, translucent wall panels, lamps, table surfaces and framed images made from plant fibers formed in water (banana, waru and gamal, chosen according to the piece), related in principle to the Asian practice of forming a sheet from…
Barriletes gigantes are the colossal tissue-paper-and-bamboo kites constructed annually by community teams in Santiago Sacatepéquez and Sumpango, Kaqchikel Maya towns roughly 30–40 kilometers from Guatemala City, and raised each All…