artisanship

plural artisanships

1. countableuncountableThe property of being produced by an artisan; the skill or work of an artisan.

   Plumbing, the young man announced, and the allied artisanships serve their purposes.

   1925, Carl Van Vechten, chapter 1, in Firecrackers, page 12

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   In the room […] are various tools which belonged to him, models of his own making, and specimens of his own turning in ivory, at which he was an adept: indeed, many of these specimens afford ample proof that he was no mean hand in this branch of artisanship […]

   1834, John Barrow, chapter 2, in Excursions in the North of Europe, through Parts of Russia, Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Norway, page 55

   the crocheted doilies of missionary artisanship and hammered copper plates representing idealized tribal maidens or trumpeting elephants that were African bourgeois taste

   1987, Nadine Gordimer, A Sport of Nature, page 203

   There may be countless little imperfections or a breathtaking sense of perfection, but either way the almost devotional artisanship imbues common objects with an uncommon gravity, along with the sense of energy, growth and vulnerability that defines real bodies.

   2007 August 23, Roberta Smith, “Against Delusion: Robert Gober’s Nuts-and-Bolts Americana”, in New York Times