craftsmen

Noun

craftsman (plural craftsmen)

1. One who is highly skilled at one's trade; an artisan or artificer.
   • Dilettanteism presupposes art as botchwork does handicraft; and the Dilettante holds the same relation to the artist that the botcher does to the craftsman.1874, The Quarterly Review, volume 137, page 388
2. A person who makes or creates material objects partly or entirely by hand.
   • Yeh Wang (1826-1889), a master craftsman born in Chiayi, founded the Taiwanese branch of the industry, and though his work is rare these days, you can still see some of his original figures in Ciji Temple in Syuejia near Tainan (see p.333).[...]Chiayi is still home to numerous koji craftsmen - in...2007, Stephen Keeling, Brice Minnigh, “Central Taiwan”, in The Rough Guide to Taiwan (Rough Guides), Penguin, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 287
3. A person who produces arts and crafts.

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