The workaims to comprehensively understand the development trends in the research of traditional Chinese handicrafts over the past two decades from the perspective of bibliometric visualization and systematically review the current status and research hotspots, while clearly identifying the existing limitations and future directions of the research. With the journal literature on traditional Chinese handicrafts in CNKI database from 2002 to 2022 as a research data source, the annual number of publications, research institutions,