工艺美术志是记述一个地区工艺美术历史和现状的文献。由于工艺美术领域广阔、门类众多,内容丰富,规律特殊,因此工艺美术志的编写难度就比较大,不易把握。在本届修志过程中,尽管编纂人员相当重视工艺美术志的质量,为此付出了辛勤的劳动,取得了可喜成果,但与其它专业志相比,都存在部分倾向性问题,而史志界对此尚未引起重视,至今未见有之加以探讨。笔者曾一度亲历《苏州市志·工艺美术卷》的编修实践,也曾拜读了《扬州工艺美术志》,颇有感触。现试就编纂工艺美术志的几个问题略陈浅见,以求教于史志界专家和同行。 Arts and crafts blog is a description of a regional arts and crafts history and current status of the literature. Due to the vast field of arts and crafts, a large number of categories, rich in content, the law of special, so the preparation of arts and crafts magazine is relatively difficult, not easy to grasp. In the process of the revision of the current edition, although the compilers paid so much attention to the quality of arts and crafts records that they had worked hard and achieved gratifying results, they all had some tendencies compared with other professional chores. However, This has not attracted much attention and so far it has not been explored. I once witnessed the “Suzhou City, arts and crafts volume” editing practice, also read “Yangzhou Arts and Crafts”, quite touching. Trying to codify the few issues of art and craft magazine sketchy, in order to seek advice in the historians experts and colleagues.