handcraft

noun

1. handicraft
2. (obsolete)The class of subjects for study that rely upon experimentation and observation.

   “These are, in redecraft, the English language and literature, mathematics, psychology; in handcraft, the physical sciences, physics, chemistry, biology; with regular and ample laboratory work in each.”

   “Accordingly, that institution or school is best which enforces habits of order, attention, obedience, discrimination, memory ; which then secures skill in handcraft and redecraft, and likewise shows how these habits and this skill may be applied in useful avocations.”

verb

1. To engage in handcraft or handicraft.