Craft

Craft

A craft is a profession that requires some particular kind of skilled work. In a historical sense, particularly as pertinent to the Middle Ages and earlier, the term is usually applied to people occupied in small-scale production of goods. The traditional terms craftsman and craftswoman are nowadays often replaced by artisan and rarely by craftsperson (craftspeople).

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Famous quotes containing the word craft:

    We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    But for the lovers, their arms
    Round the griefs of the ages,
    Who pay no praise or wages
    Nor heed my craft or art.
    Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    Trouth is trayed where craft is in ure;
    But though ye have had my hertes cure,
    Trow ye I dote withoute ending?
    What no, perdy!
    Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)