handicraftsman

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He is handicraftsman in that he guides and directs them by his skill within the scope of activity to which they are designed.

From The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production by Hobson, J. A. (John Atkinson)

It was still, happily, the age of the handicraftsman; the machinery age was yet to come.

From Legends of Loudoun An account of the history and homes of a border county of Virginia's Northern Neck by Williams, Harrison

Other striking resemblances are found between the names for handicraftsman and master-builder in widely distant countries.

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

But to men who work with their hands there must always be something specially inspiring in the life and example of one who was a handicraftsman and so much beside.

From Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies by Blore, George Henry

Born in Norfolk, in 1785, he was apprenticed to a joiner, and, becoming a very superior handicraftsman, he rapidly took a prominent position as a maker of agricultural implements. 

From Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 by Mackie, Charles