To provide a craft product comprising a combination of Japanese paper or cloth and lacquer or persimmon tannin, which creates a concavo-convex impression, three-dimensionality, and consequently creates a sense of dignity along with a high-grade feel, by protrusively forming prescribed parts on the subject matter in convex shapes so as to fit and conform to optional designs or patterns etc. visualized on the Japanese paper or the cloth, in order to provide a solution to problems of conventional lacquered papier-mache, and to provide a manufacturing method of the craft product.

Designs or patterns are visualized on Japanese paper or cloth 2 to be pasted onto a surface of a desired subject matter while using, as the subject matter, various sorts of livingware such as a bag A, a basket, a sieve basket, a bucket, a box or a piece of furniture. Paper clay 3 or a material with the same effect as it is suitably and protrusively formed in convex shapes on the prescribed position of the subject matter so as to fit and conform to the designs or patterns visualized on the Japanese paper or the cloth 2. The Japanese paper or the cloth 2 is pasted thereon so as to make a cover under the position where the designs or patterns are positioned. Then, the Japanese paper or the cloth 2 is coated with lacquer or persimmon tannin.