craftsmen

(noun)

A skilled manual worker who makes items that may be functional or strictly decorative, including furniture, clothing, jewelry, household items, and tools or even machines such as the handmade devices of a watchmaker.

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Examples of craftsmen in the following topics:

  • The Middle Classes

    • The middle classes of colonial America consisted mostly of yeoman farmers and skilled craftsmen.

  • Society Under the Shang Dynasty

    • It featured a stratified social system made up of aristocrats, soldiers, artisans and craftsmen, and peasants.
    • Artisans and craftsmen comprised the middle class of Shang society.

  • The Opus Anglicanum

    • While it is often associated with certain convents, a professional group of male craftsmen produced a great deal of the work.

  • Architecture and Art in the Unified Silla Period

    • The Silla craftsmen were famed for their gold-crafting ability and Buddhist architecture.
    • The Silla craftsmen were famed for their gold-crafting ability, which shares similarities with Etruscan and Greek techniques, as exemplified by gold earrings and crowns.
    • Craftsmen also created massive temple bells, reliquaries, and statutes.

  • Introduction to Small Business and the Corporation

    • But as the nation's population grew and cities assumed increased economic importance, the dream of being in business for oneself evolved to include small merchants, independent craftsmen, and self-reliant professionals as well.

  • Trade and Commerce

    • Towns saw the growing power of guilds that arose in the 14th century as craftsmen uniting to protect their common interest.
    • In medieval cities, craftsmen started to form associations based on their trades.
    • Usually the founders were free independent master craftsmen who hired apprentices.

  • Beats and Wide Tuning

    • Long-standing traditions allow gamelan craftsmen to reliably produce such impressive feats of tuning.

  • Training Artists

    • For many years, craftsmen and artists have formed associations, guilds, and groups in order to preserve and perpetuate their various crafts.

  • Equality and its Limits

    • They were craftsmen and small merchants.
    • Most yeomen farmers, craftsmen, and small merchants joined the Patriot cause to demand more political equality.

  • Temple Style of the North

    • India's temple architecture was developed from the creativity of Sthapathis and Shilpis, both of whom belong to a larger community of craftsmen and artisans called Vishwakarma.