0 someone who does skilled work with their hands --
1 made in a traditional way by someone who is skilled with their hands: --
3 someone who is skilled in making things with their hands: --
State-of-the-art industrial manufacturing is complemented by the work of skilled seamstresses and artisans.
Most buildings had a shop front and traders and artisans located on these streets were at the same time shopkeepers.
They both had a somewhat independent material base, as artisans or skilled laborers, and both maintained their separate religious beliefs.
They were almost exclusively composed of artisans such as pattern-makers, turners, glovers, and the like.
All merchants and artisans thus were required to register as members of a trade hang.
Above all, he notes the degree to which artisans conducted their religious affairs on their own terms.
A large overlap existed between the guild members and the janissaries after the latter began to moonlight as artisans and shopkeepers in the 17th century.
One group that disliked debasements included the guild members, shopkeepers, small merchants, and wage-earning artisans.
The middle class consisted of artisans and people with small businesses.
