He was, he says, bored with school and wanted to be a craftsman, working with his hands.
The longstanding gender division between the craftsman working for money, and the craftswoman working to feed, clothe, and comfort her family seemed re-inscribed.
His films were shown around the world and won prizes at major festivals, yet he remained a self-effacing craftsman working within the BBC.
He and Lagerfeld turned to a small factory in Florence, where a craftsman worked for about a year to finesse the drying problem.
As no other examples have been found and as the inscription in Arabic indicates an imperfect knowledge of the language, it may be the work of a Byzantine craftsman working in the Artuqid kingdom.
The story goes that in 1899 Gov. Theodore Roosevelt, who thought enough was enough, happened upon a craftsman working on the carvings and issued a stop-work order in mid-chisel.
The cartoonist Edward Koren, whose long-nosed, hairy characters will be familiar to New Yorker readers and others, calls him "the most skilled satirical craftsman working today" (after a pause, he posits "with the possible exception of Robert Crumb").
Peter Zumthor is an architect's architect: he is hugely admired within the profession as a designer of precision and integrity and a master craftsman working in a range of materials from sandblasted glass to cedar shingles.
Of course, the modern concept of intellectual property did not exist during the Baroque; a musician such as Bach was considered not an individual genius but a craftsman working with material in circulation.
The jeweler himself may be innocent: I once had a craftsman working for me who substituted white gold for platinum whenever making small pieces for our newer salespeople.
