craftspersonship en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈkɹæftspɜːsənʃɪp/ (UK)
Etymology
From craftsperson + -ship, on the pattern of craftsmanship.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The body of activities, skills, techniques, knowledge, and expertise pertinent to (a) particular craft(s).
The carpenter’s role – like that of a story told 1900 years earlier – is not to craft, for in his craftspersonship he is faulty, but to comprehend.
1935, Arts Magazine, Art Digest Inc., page 140:This artisanship or craftspersonship was the sort of Enlightenment activity extolled by Diderot in the eighteenth century.
2001: Stephen Gudeman, The Anthropology of Economy: Community, Market, and Culture, page 115 (Blackwell Publishing)The olive too they say belongs to this pioneeress, and craftspersonship, plus many arts and crafts are this inventress’s.
2007: John Henderson, The Medieval World of Isidore of Seville, page 205 (Cambridge University Press)