Some Decorative Arts
- Ceramic art (that is Pottery)
- Glassware, including some stained glass and studio glass
- Furniture
- Hardstone carving, including pietra dura work and engraved gems
- metalwork, especially by goldsmiths and whitesmiths
- jewellery
- ivory carving and bone carving
- textile arts
- Some mosaics, and all micromosaics
- Wallpaper
- Fretwork
- Fold-forming
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