Pre-historic people had invented some crafts of wood and stone to use them in their domestic work. Then the crafts implemented not only in domestic and personal use but also in hunting, cultivating, cutting trees self-defence. By passage of time, a great change befell in their mind and they came about aesthetic and tried tediously to work out something other than the domestic and personal priority. Flight of imagination has taken the artist to the uphill and down dale. They had became curious and zealous to make neat and elegant things. Their splendor art object had attracted the attention of others towards them and brought laurels for them. The morale of the creator was boosted with lots praise and admiration artists were inspired to work hard and design some more cynosures. Time passed by, persons with artistic temperament became connoisseur enhancing their ability and skills and the continual endeavors led them to expertise in the trade. The work become more complex and divided, work and workshops emerged, finding better and new raw materials they created more delicate and good looking objects.

The course of Dark age became a bygone age and the art stepped into the ancient regime and flourished very delicately. Artisans had entered in the profession of craftsmanship making many nobility by rebuilding and refurbishment of the old patterns. The works of artists was diverse form one another some were working with stones and clays and some with woods and fabrics while others were in leather ivory and glass work. Some did sculpting and carving and engraving where's some were indulged in weaving, molding and paintings. When artist invoked by beauty and passion and emotions became impelled by impulse and invented some glamorous handcrafted goods and items of comeliness. Discovery of metals and invention of glass and other raw materials had brought a sea change in the art and craft profession which have been the heritage for the successors who have kept the trends to live and kicking till date. Several master pieces of stone, metallic products, ivory and wooden wares and many pulchritude object d'art were undertaken during the time past and they are considered as museum pieces now.

Talking about here and now of handicrafts it is no longer the appliqué and leisurely works under taken by the traditional band of the remote villages where agriculture and ethnic jobs are their sole occupations. Since there is a giant place for the handicrafts and handcrafted products in the international market the handiwork professional and small scale industries (producing handicrafts) are in boom as demand of handcrafted articles are increasing day by day through out the world. The handicraft connoisseurs and artisan are inventing new and unique articles in times with out numbers as a response to the fashion and taste of the conventional trends among the communities. Handicrafts are integral and indivisible part of the world today. Despite the modern technologies prevailing over the old traditional methods and it has been printless over the people who believe and concerned with the article made in a folk way. The impression of the handcraft items are incised in the heart of the people of even modern times that nothing could take the place of those. The products are used in many purposes from religious rites and rituals to home furnishing. There are many communities who do not use the machine processed items even clothes and other particulars for their ethenic prohobition. And they require many devotional paraphernalia which are only available in the handicraft markets. Perhaps there is no country which is not importing and exporting or using handicraft items and there are very few nations who might not be producing hand crafted articles.