It was his favourite idea that the division of labour in modern manufactures had degraded the workman by making him a mere machine; that the divorce between the art of the designer and the art of the handicraftsman was fatal to both.
As a student of art, he mourned over the reduction of the handicraftsman to a slave of the machine.
Now that the designer and the handicraftsman are separate persons, the work of the former is unreal, and of the latter merely mechanical.
Even where the final step of substituting the factory for the home had not been taken the subordination of the handicraftsman to the master who provided the materials and paid the wages was tolerably complete.
But it is evidently not enough to say that the labour-saving machine has merely substituted the stored and concentrated effort of the inventor for that labour of the handicraftsman which is saved.
He is handicraftsman in that he guides and directs them by his skill within the scope of activity to which they are designed.
But the handicraftsmanis dependent on your pleasure and opinion.
Other striking resemblances are found between the names for handicraftsman and master-builder in widely distant countries.
The movement inaugurated by Luther gave to the peasant groaning under the weight of baronial oppression, and the small handicraftsman suffering under his Ehrbarkeit, a rallying-point and a rallying cry.
As enemies of the decaying and obstructive forms of Feudalism and Church organization, the peasant and handicraftsmanwere necessarily on the side of the new Individualism.
But afterwards, when art has developed itself and created a style expressive of the national genius, the process is reversed, and the handicraftsman borrows in turn from the artist.
Under such conditions it is difficult to say where the artist began and where the handicraftsman left off.
Perhaps there is no contrivance by which the skill of the handicraftsman has been more effectually aided than by this machine.
For it must be understood that the handicraftsman whose heart is in his calling, feels as much honest pride in turning out a piece of thoroughly good workmanship, as the sculptor or the painter does in executing a statue or a picture.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "handicraftsman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
