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artisan
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thumb|American sculptor Bessie Potter Vonnoh in her studio
An artisan is a skilled craftsperson who creates handmade objects, typically using traditional techniques and methods passed down through practice and training. Artisans matter because they preserve specialized crafting knowledge, produce unique, high-quality work, and keep traditional ways of making things alive in an increasingly mass-produced world.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- profession
- Subclass of
- creator
- Image
- Bamun artisan.jpg
- Said to be same as
- handicrafter
- Field of occupation
- craft
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- female form of label
- حرايفية
- topic's main category
- Category:Artisans
- Commons category
- Artisans
- male form of label
- حرايفي
- different from
- handicrafter
- described by source
- Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- History
- Medieval artisans
- Shokunin
- Gallery
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|American sculptor Bessie Potter Vonnoh in her studio
thumb|upright|Bagh print|Traditional hand block print artisan in [[India]] thumb|An artist blacksmith and a striker working as one thumb|right|A wood carver in Bali
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