It is true that a skilled worker such as carpenter or blacksmith was an artisan.
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an artisan is someone who specializes in an art. -- An artisan which comes from Italian; artigiano means a skilled manual worker who makes items that may be both functional, decorative, or both. This includes furniture, jewellery, furniture and other household items. artisan can also be used when referring to the craft of hand making of food products, such as bread, cheese and different types of beverage.
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A smith was an artisan, a worker in metals, e.g. blacksmith (worker in iron), silversmith (worker in silver).
An artisan, also called a craftsmen is a skilled manual worker who uses tools and machinery in a particular craft.
An artisan is worker in a skilled trade, especially one that involves making things by hand. Unemployed is without a paid job but available to work. So in colloquial English it is an unemployed skilled worker.
skilled worker, artisan, master, maker, wright, technician, smith
Carpenter or any ither wood worker. However, the question should be iron is to blacksmith as wood id to? If wood was to carpenter as blacksmith is to iron, then we are thikning of bizzarro world.
The term artisan fills the definition.
An artisan is a skilled manual worker who crafts items that may be functional or strictly decorative, including furniture, clothing, jewelry, household items, and tools
Hephaestus was a very skilled metal worker. He was also the blacksmith of the Greek Gods.
a craftsman or craft worker a more old fashioned word is artisan Many craft titles have the suffix smith such as "blacksmith" or "silversmith" meaning a metalworker The suffix "wright" such as wheelwright or cartwright means a woodworker. In parts of northern England a wright was the same as a carpenter. Many trade names became family names.