Definition of handicraft clarifies it as manual skill used in making or adapting articles for sale under statutory and reference standards. The term handicraft is treated as manual skill or manual labour used in making, altering, repairing, ornamenting, finishing or adapting articles for sale, encompassing diverse skilled decorative manufactures such as textile work, pottery, metalworking, jewellery, leatherwork, woodwork and glasswork; reference definitions from dictionaries and lexicons describe it as a trade or calling requiring expertness with the hand, and authorities have relied on these and statutory formulations when construing the term.