handworker

In luxury the handworker is celebrated; in Big Fashion she is an inconvenient truth.

Why fast fashion is slow death for the planet 2011

And in the evenings, I will begin to sew it down - this is a task I actually enjoy doing, despite the fact that I am not normally a big handworker.

Pile o' quilts katelnorth 2008

With the exception of, the singer and the dramatic artist, whose production is of an intangible sort, the girl who makes things is a handworker by choice.

Vocational Guidance for Girls Marguerite Stockman Dickson

Invention was an ennobling pursuit, and was, even among those who were not also handworkers, a means of employment which never left dull or idle hours, while to the handworker it meant more, for it offered the most ready means of rising among his fellows, and, where invention received proper protection, of securing a competence for old age or ill health.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885 Various

German, somewhat more often heard here as a living language, and consequently more vital to us, was no longer merely the vernacular of handworker or cheese-and-butter merchant, but became the expression of the spirit, living in the mouth of prisoner or captor, of a nation in arms, seeking to destroy our ideals.

The Centennial of the University of Virginia, 1819-1921 1922

Vermont may have lost a skilled handworker -- there are those who vouch for the excellence of his handiwork [13] -- but the Union gained a joiner of first-rate ability.

Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics Allen Johnson 1900

In such industries as those of watchmaking the factory worker, though upon the average his work requires less manual dexterity than the handworker in the older method, may get more intellectual exercise in the course of his work.

The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production 1899

They are evolved out of the necessity of protecting from the handworker the life and property of the brain worker and the idler.

The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 Ambrose Bierce 1878

Beside this, travelers rarely go on foot in those regions; we were frequently taken for traveling handworker, and subjected to imposition.

Views a-foot Bayard Taylor 1851

The handworker, finding it more and more difficult to invest his savings, has been more and more tempted to squander them.

The Ancien Regime Charles Kingsley 1847