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Handicraft
Handicraft: artisan-made useful or decorative objects produced by hand, hand-tools, or assisted means where the artisan's manual contribution remains the most substantial component; distinct from mass production; includes ceramics, textiles, woodwork, and jewelry; major rural livelihood in India and China.
Handkerchief
Handkerchief (hankie): a small square of cotton, linen, or silk carried for wiping the nose, face, or hands, or worn as decoration. From the Roman sudarium to the 1924 Kleenex displacement, pocket squares, hygiene, and a $2.3 billion market.
Handloom sari
Handloom sari: a sari woven on a manually operated loom, legally "any loom other than powerloom" in India. Also called handwoven saree; distinguished from powerloom copies by weave variation and certification marks; 35.22 lakh weavers per the 2019-20 census.
Handshake
Handshake: a greeting in which two people grasp right hands and move them up and down, used to greet, congratulate, or seal agreements. Ancient origins, egalitarian spread in Britain 1700–1850, and measured bacterial transfer versus fist bumps and high fives.
Handweavers Guild of America
Handweavers Guild of America (HGA), founded 1969, is a 501(c)(3) fiber arts association with 4,000+ members; publishes Shuttle Spindle & Dyepot, runs the biennial Convergence conference, Small Expressions exhibit, and the currently suspended Certificate of Excellence program.
Handweaving revival movements
Handweaving revival movements are organized efforts, beginning in the late nineteenth century, to re-establish hand-weaving as a living practice after mechanized mills absorbed its economic role.
Hanfu
Hanfu (汉服) is the modern umbrella term for traditional Han Chinese dress and the revival movement around it. Key facts: term coined in the 21st century, earliest attestation in Han-dynasty Mawangdui slips (168 BCE), revival began 2003, 2025 market over 20 billion yuan, women lead the movement.
Hannah Jeter
Hannah Jeter (Hannah Davis), born 1990 in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, is an American model who covered the 2015 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, appeared in it five times 2013–2017, hosted Project Runway: Junior, and married Derek Jeter in 2016.
Hannelore Knuts
Hannelore Knuts (born 1977, Hasselt) is a Belgian model of the late-1990s Belgian wave, a Vogue Italia cover icon (three consecutive 2001 covers), later stylist, UltraMegaLore curator, and mindfulness teacher.
Hapa Board Shop
Hapa Board Shop (HAPA Surf & Skate) is a surf and skate shop at 98-718 Moanalua Rd, Unit A18, Pearl City, Oahu, Hawaii. J.Splee Surfboards headquarters, ...Lost Mayhem dealer, new and used boards, consignment, inter-island shipping.
Hardanger embroidery
Hardanger embroidery (Norwegian: hardangersøm, hardangersaum) is Norwegian cutwork whitework embroidery from the Hardanger district of western Norway, descended from Italian reticella, traditionally white linen on linen, now also colored and spread to the US Midwest and Japan.
Harriet Powers
Harriet Powers (1837–1910), African American story-quilt maker from Clarke County, Georgia, born into slavery; her Bible Quilt (Smithsonian) and Pictorial Quilt (MFA Boston) survive of at least five quilts; honored on 2026 USPS Forever stamps.
Harris tweed
Harris Tweed is a handwoven wool cloth made only in Scotland's Outer Hebrides, certified by the Orb mark (1909) and protected by the Harris Tweed Act 1993, which created the Harris Tweed Authority and fixes its legal definition.
Hat
A hat is headwear with a brim around the crown, distinguishing it from the cap, serving protection from sun and rain while signaling rank, profession, and fashion.
Hatmaking
Hatmaking, also called hat making or hattery, is the craft of making felt, fabric and straw hats, distinct from millinery. Key facts: UK status Endangered, felt hood making commercially extinct, hat blocks central to shaping.
Hausa embroidery
Hausa embroidery is the decorative needlework tradition of the Hausa people of northern Nigeria, best known for the hand-embroidered men's robes called babban riga, documented from the 15th century onward.
Haute couture
Haute couture: the legally protected French appellation for made-to-measure, hand-crafted fashion, founded by Charles Frederick Worth in 1858, regulated since the 1945 decree, shown twice yearly at Paris Haute Couture Week.
Hawaiian quilt
Hawaiian quilt (kapa kuiki): an appliqué bedcover tradition begun after New England missionaries introduced quilting, using symmetrical single-cloth plant designs and echo quilting; flag quilts after 1893 served as royalist protest, and guilds like Poakalani & Co. and the Hawaii Quilt Guild keep the art alive.
Hazmat suit
Hazmat suit, short for hazardous materials suit, is full-body protective clothing against chemicals and infectious agents. US practice classifies suits into EPA/OSHA Levels A through D, Level A being fully encapsulating with SCBA.
Headgear
Headgear, also called headwear (頭飾), is any covering for the head, spanning hats, ceremonial headdresses, religious coverings, and protective helmets classified as Type I/II and Classes C, G, E under ANSI Z89.1, ISO 3873, and CSA Z94.1.
Headscarf
Headscarf: a cloth worn over the hair, also called hijab when worn for Muslim modesty. Predates Judaism, Christianity, and Islam; documented in ancient Mesopotamia; banned in French schools in 2004 and central to a $433bn modest fashion market.
Health Goth
Health Goth: a 2013 Portland-born fashion aesthetic fusing monochrome technical sportswear with goth and cyberpunk imagery, founded as a Facebook community by Magic Fades' Mike Grabarek, Jeremy Scott, and Chris Cantino, distinct from the goth music subculture.
Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination
Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination, the Met Costume Institute's 2018 exhibition curated by Andrew Bolton, paired Vatican papal vestments with Catholic-inspired fashion across 25 galleries, drawing 1,659,647 visitors, a Met record.
Hedi Slimane
Hedi Slimane (born 1968, Paris) is a French designer and photographer who led Dior Homme (2000-2007), Saint Laurent (2012-2016), and Celine (2018-2024), creating the skinny rock silhouette and growing Celine to about €2.6 billion in sales.
Hei-tiki
Hei-tiki is a small Māori neck pendant in the stylized form of a human figure, usually carved from pounamu, and handed down through generations as taonga.
Heidi Klum
Heidi Klum, German-American supermodel and TV host born 1973 in Bergisch Gladbach, won Model '92, was a Victoria's Secret Angel 1997-2010, hosted Project Runway and Germany's Next Top Model, judged America's Got Talent, and won a 2013 Emmy with Tim Gunn.
Heisei retro (平成レトロ)
Heisei retro (平成レトロ) is a Japanese consumer and cultural trend in which 1990s and early-2000s Heisei-era fashion, goods, and media, like Tamagotchi, purikura, and gyaru style, are re-consumed chiefly by Generation Z.
Helly Hansen
Helly Hansen, Norwegian technical apparel brand founded 1877 in Moss by captain Helly Juell Hansen; maker of HELLY TECH waterproof shells, LIFA base layers, and workwear; sold by Canadian Tire to Kontoor Brands in 2025 for $1,313.4 million.
Hem
Hem: the folded, sewn edge of cloth on garments such as skirts and trousers; also called hemming. Covers hand slip-stitch and catch-stitch hems, machine blind and topstitched hems, timing, durability, and history.
Henna
Henna (Lawsonia inermis, mehndi) is a reddish-brown dye from the dried leaves of a Lythraceae shrub, whose lawsone molecule stains keratin in skin and hair; used since Babylonian and ancient Egyptian times, approved as hair dye only in the US.