Uganda has a wide array of handicraft products ranging from basketry, mats, ceramics, beads, pottery, textiles and woven products, toys, jewellery and fashion accessories, bags, leather products, batiks, musical instruments, recycled paper products and wood products, among others
Handicraft making in Uganda is essentially a cultural, traditional and predominantly cottage industry undertaken mainly by rural women as a way of supplementing household incomes. Tradition has been that master crafts workers handover skills from generation to generation
Ugandan craft works are so varied that one needs to pay attention to various ethnic setting in order to exhaust it. One has also to make distinctions and give similarities that occur within the crafts of different ethnic groups. The differences that appear in crafts are consequences of the cultural practices of each ethnic group.