It included editorials, features, technical information, letters from readers, and photographs of craft artists, their tools, and their works.

[3][4] Craft Horizons began as an untitled newsletter in November 1941,[1] sent out to artists who had purchased stock in, and consigned works to, America House.

[5] One of Webb's earliest initiatives in support of craft, America House was a New York retail shop that featured pieces from artists around the country.

[7] Among other content, Volume 1, Issue 1 featured an essay by Richard F. Bach, a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, asking “What is a Craftsman?”.

She often addressed professional and economic issues, such as the need for high standards of design, fair wages, education of the public, and craft-focused exhibitions.

Previous craft periodicals were associated with particular movements or aesthetic points of view (e.g. Ver Sacrum, The Craftsman, Henry L. Wilson's The Bungalow).

Publications in the hobby craft movement focused on do-it-yourself patterns, plans and techniques (e.g. Needlecraft, Stitchcraft, The Deltagram and The Home Craftsman).

The first issue to appear in 1950 marked a major shift: rather than a traditional artwork, it featured abstraction, a stencil by Joan Miró.

[15] It has appeared at the Center for Craft, Creativity & Design (CCCD) in Asheville, North Carolina (2017), the Ceramics Research Center at the Arizona State University Art Museum in Tempe, Arizona (2018), and the Minnesota Museum of American Art in Saint Paul, Minnesota (2019).