Just a bit of simple craftsman's pride.
Philip IV elevated Rubens from mere court painter to "secretary of the king's privy council of the Netherlands" to head off complaints that a simple craftsman should be engaged in matters of state.
The only surviving building from the Ponds' Hull House complex is the 1905 dining hall, a simple Craftsman style building that was designated as a National Historic Landmark in the 1960s.
He portrayed himself in fine clothes, not as a simple German craftsman like his father, a goldsmith in Nuremberg, but as a glamorous international artist, a man of style and sophistication.
They play into that narrative of the simple, hardworking craftsman, coffee producer, baker, brew master, what have you.
To progress beyond simple skills, a craftsman not only required the will to excel but sometimes was subject, in theory at least, to socially defined restrictions.
Because medieval craftsmen employed simple hand tools, a workman's own skill determined the quantity and quality of his output.
They were simple storefronts with a craftsman waiting inside to take your measurements, help select your fabric, and get to work on the months-long process of making your clothes.
Chow Tai Fook has a gold crafting plant in Shunde, a city in Guangdong Province, with six artists producing designs rendered by 3,000 craftsmen working with simple tools such as torches, small chisels and picks.
The interior of the craft sports premium leather seating, hand-stitched by a former Hermes craftsman and a simple on/off switch dashboard design, complete with a place for your iPad.
