Noun

(craftsmen)

A male artisan.

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And if someone wants to know how to make objections to actual craftsmen themselves on the subject of art in general or any particular art, there are published treatises available, as you know.

* {{quote-book, year=2006, author=

, title=Internal Combustion , chapter=2 citation , passage=But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.}}

Noun

(handicraftsmen)

A practitioner of a handicraft, usually male.

*, II.18:

*:I know, that a handicraftsman will scarcely looke off his worke, to gaze upon an ordinary man: Whereas to see a notable great person come into a towne, he will leave both worke and shop.

*{{quote-book, year=1742, author=Samuel Johnson, title= The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol.6

, passage=He may, among the drunkards, be a hearty fellow, and, among sober handicraftsmen , a free-spoken gentleman; but he must have some better distinction, before he is a patriot.}}

*{{quote-book, year=1878, author=James Inglis, title= Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier

, passage=Like all native handicraftsmen he sits down at his work.}}

*{{quote-book, year=1903, author=Philip P. Wells, title= Bible Stories and Religious Classics

, passage=I know that a good honest handicraftsman , Erik, the glove-maker, has been your suitor; he is a widower without children, he is well off; think whether you cannot be content with him.}}