practical art

He did invent type molds for casting type and thereby brought printing to the point of a practical art.

Bibliographical rules govern the practical art of book description, what is technically known as cataloging.

Of what value would a shipload of harps prove to a people unacquainted with the science or the practical art of music?

In the practical art of writing, it is not very unfair to measure its beauty largely by its utility.

Ornamental writing is not a practical art, and has no connection whatever with the practical business of life.