传统手工艺大多是作为制造日用器物所需的技艺而存在，在科技发达和大机器生产的今天，城市中却涌现一股手工艺热潮，这背后有着深刻的时代动因。以往的手工艺研究多从非遗保护的角度关注手工技艺的传承，虽然偶有论及当下手工艺发展的新趋向，但对城市新中产人群对手工艺品的消费和整个社会兴起的手工体验热潮缺乏深度的解析。手工艺在今天的新变不仅揭示了我国当下社会环境的重要转型对传统手工艺的巨大影响，也昭示了手工艺对当下国人建构有品位和自主性生活方式的重要意义。

Most of the traditional handicrafts exist as the skills required for the manufacture of daily utensils. However, in many well-developed cities with advanced technology and large machine production, handicrafts rise suddenly, which must attribute to a profound motivation of the times. In the past, handicraft research mostly focused on the inheritance of handicraft skills from the perspective of intangible cultural heritage protection. Although the new trends in the development of handicrafts were occasionally discussed, the consumption of handicrafts by the urban new middle-class people and the rise of handicraft experience in the whole society haven’t been deeply analyzed yet. Today’s new changes in handicrafts not only reveal the huge impact of the important transformation of the current social environment in our country on traditional handicrafts, but also demonstrate the importance of handicrafts to the construction of a tasteful and subjective lifestyle for today’s Chinese people.