handicraft vs knitting

handicraft and knitting both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
handicraft	Yes	No	No	No
knitting	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, knitting is a hyponym of handicraft; that is, knitting is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than handicraft:

handicraft (noun)	knitting (noun)
a craft that requires skillful hands	creating knitted wear
a work produced by hand labor	needlework created by interlacing yarn in a series of connected loops using straight eyeless needles or by machine