Word: craftsmanly
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When the carpenters and joiners of Waltham, Mass, whittled out wooden models for L. W. Gushing & Sons' custom-made weather vanes, they had no pretensions of being artists. If they added an occasional creative or imaginative touch to these practical instruments, they were merely trying, as one craftsman put it, to "blend the useful and the agreeable...
...Silk Screen, a hand stencil process using thick, opaque inks, a limited-edition medium, often expensive, which can reproduce heavily textured oils either very well or atrociously, depending on the craftsman...
...paintings are masterpieces which bear out a dictum of the sage Ptahhotep (see hieroglyphics below): "No limit may be set to art ..." The majority, however, for all their historical interest, are either stereotyped or clumsy, and illustrate the second half of Ptahhotep's saying: ". . . Neither is there any craftsman that is fully master of his craft...
...upon Claudine. If Colette was lazy or restive, Willy locked her in her room. Every page she wrote passed under Willy's practiced editorial eye ("Have I married the last of the lyric poets?" he would snarl, if the prose was sappy). By 1904, Colette was a trained craftsman-and fed up with the life of a tormented hack. At 31, after twelve years of marriage, Colette broke with Willy...
Copper for the craftsman, cunning at his trade...