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Objectives. Sustainability gets talked about in many arenas. However, it is not always clear what is actually talked about when sustainability is discussed. The theoretical framework of the study lies in sustainability theories and their incorporation to craft as well as in the phi-losophy of science in the area of concepts and definitions. The research assignment is to describe, analyse and interpret the concept of sustainability and its definitions in craft in peer-reviewed craft science texts. Methods. The data which consisted of 24 peer-reviewed texts in English, was gathered at the beginning of the year 2015. Data analysis was a multistage mainly qualitative content analysis method triangulation whereby all the individual texts were first operationalised to 24 definitions. Results and Conclusions. At the beginning of the year 2015 sustainable craft concept was not to be found in the peer-reviewed craft science texts, nor was sustainability explicitly de-fined in craft neither there was not a definition of sustainability in craft based on a broad survey that is common in qualitative research. The results show that an abstract, multifac-eted and multi-layered concept was mainly defined as one-sided, on a surface level and in-strumental despite the fact that it was considered important across the board. The most sig-nificant category of definition was eco-efficiency, which is always by definition an insufficient solution. On the whole the topic was deemed significant, but the understanding of it was ra-ther poor, therefore the applications to craft science were quite incomplete. Thus, craft could not show its best qualities. There is need for more research so that science would fulfil its function and it would cumulate and correct itself.