handicraftsman

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Now that the designer and the handicraftsman are separate persons, the work of the former is unreal, and of the latter merely mechanical.

From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

In Rome, for a free citizen to have been a handicraftsman would have been a disgrace; he could be farmer, banker, soldier,—nothing more.

From A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. by Davis, William Stearns

Menah or Menyah=artificer, artisan, builder, handicraftsman; cf. verb men=to build, found, establish, erect, also menta'al=to govern.

From The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations by Nuttall, Zelia

The old-type handicraftsman and small merchant are obviously menaced by modern industrial and business methods, and the peasant masses are in little better shape.

From The New World of Islam by Stoddard, Lothrop

There I go every Saturday night, when the museum is open later than usual, to see the handicraftsman, the wood-worker, the glass-blower and the worker in metals. 

From Miscellanies by Ross, Robert