The book tells about the emergence and development of folk art crafts that have survived to this day from ancient gray hair, such as scan (filigree), enamel (enamel), blackening, engraving, coinage, basma, art casting, wood carving, about Russian artistic varnishes, jewelry and much, much more. More than forty types and directions of folk art with the technology of execution, "secrets" of masters are presented. The book is illustrated with more than 160 technical drawings and samples of creative works. In our age of machines and automation, standard and unification, products of folk craftsmen, made manually, mostly from natural materials, acquire special significance and attractiveness with their uniqueness, creative personality of the master, the use of "secrets" of artistic images, ornamentation, plots transmitted from generation to generation. The purpose of the book is to try to help the craftsman with his own hands to perform an original, beautiful, unique thing, to give the main technological developments, as well as information about materials and tools.