It seems to have been always an important and considerable town, and it doubtless possessed the same large body of handicraftsmen as Winchester.
Norman artificers supplanted the rude English handicraftsmen in many cases, and became a dominant class in towns.
Your school of design here will teach your girls and your boys, your handicraftsmen of the future (for all your schools of art should be local schools, the schools of particular cities).
Now, what you must do is to bring artists and handicraftsmen together.
And you would soon raise up a race of handicraftsmen who would transform the face of your country.
No workman will beautifully decorate bad work, nor can you possibly get good handicraftsmen or workmen without having beautiful designs.
In the case of handicraftsmen - the weaver, the potter, the smith - on their work are the traces of their hand.
Indeed, it has struck me that one of the grounds of that sympathy between the handicraftsmen of this country and the men of science, by which it has so often been my good fortune to profit, may, perhaps, lie here.
So it appears to me that what you want is pretty much what I want; and the practical question is, How you are to get what you need, under the actual limitations and conditions of life of handicraftsmen in this country?
I have said that the Government is already doing a great deal in aid of that kind of technical education for handicraftsmen which, to my mind, is alone worth seeking.
In aristocracies, then, the handicraftsmen work for only a limited number of very fastidious customers: the profit they hope to make depends principally on the perfection of their workmanship.
It was in Phrygia that they were mixed with the Daktuloi, or race of handicraftsmen and artificers, the sons of Dak, the showing or teaching god, the god Daksha, the father of the Kush race.
In the meantime, also, messengers were despatched far and near, and artificers and handicraftsmen rallied to the work.
The furniture also was of carved oak, delicate in workmanship, and of priceless value; for many handicraftsmen of great skill and experience came over with the Normans, or followed in the wake of the soldiery.
The smith was in a far fuller sense the maker of the horse-shoe or the nail or bolt than he is to-day; the wheelwright, the carpenter, and other handicraftsmen performed a far larger number of different processes than they do now.
These tricks of their art and craft the old handicraftsmen were past masters in the use of.
Amongst thesehandicraftsmen its reputation was and is great.
At Ghent, in 1530, the handicraftsmen got the upper hand for a time and used it like savages.
The handicraftsmen of the Smithsonian Institute have not been able to make a leaf-shaped blade such as may be seen in the museums, and no Indian has been found who could make one.
The rich tax-farmers sank into want, for they knew no trade by which they could gain a livelihood, and the handicraftsmen found no custom.
They not only carried on the wholesale and retail commerce by land and sea, but were the handicraftsmen and the artists.
They belonged, in short, to the class of the organized handicraftsmen and journeymen who worked within city walls.
That the handicraftsmen and others had to perform tax-labour for the king, is an arrangement fixed by the book of the law (p.
The fifth college superintended the products of the handicraftsmen and their sale, and marked the old and new goods; the sixth collected the tenth on all buying and selling.
And it can be done--do not let us be afraid--it can be done without in the least degree impairing the skill of our handicraftsmen or the manliness of our national life.
In no case can the spread of so mischievous a notion as that knowledge and learning ought not to come within reach of handicraftsmen be attributed to literature.
But the mob of sailors and handicraftsmen would not yield that Heraclides should lose his command of the navy; believing him, if otherwise an ill man, at any rate to be more citizenlike than Dion, and readier to comply with the people.
Besides the usual handicraftsmenthere were upwards of thirty caulkers employed, each of whom was paid 14s.
Among other noble handicraftsmen we may mention the late Lord Douglas, who cultivated bookbinding.
These, with the primitive hammer, formed the principal stock-in-trade of the early mechanics, who were handicraftsmen in the literal sense of the word.
To be sure it is, when he has only a set of handicraftsmento feed, and I my liberally-educated household.
You have not (in your employ) a body of handicraftsmen of any sort?
True, it cannot dispense with handicraftsmen and merchants, for ours is an age of new buildings, new manufactures, new markets.
Handicraftsmen of various kinds are also ordered to be paid at the old rate.
It is hopeless to expect that the Australian workmen will retain their present high standard of comfort if an influx of dark-skinned handicraftsmen is permitted.
The importance and self-consciousness of the smaller tradesmen and handicraftsmen increased with that of the great merchants.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "handicraftsmen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
