Yet, the individual craftsmen have a grudging admiration for those who are able to make more than one piece of furniture at a time.
"An individual craftsman will be accepted as an artist," she said, "but another will come along and have to fight the battles all over again."
The early European dollhouses were each unique, constructed on a custom basis by individual craftsmen.
Weapons are handmade by individual craftsmen using traditional manufacturing techniques, usually handed down father-to-son.
Straight pins used to be made by individual craftsmen who could produce only so many pins per day.
Until the 19th century, clocks were handmade by individual craftsmen and were very expensive.
The modern production studio had been born and was a step away from the former dominance of individual craftsmen and patronage.
Bicycles are the cutting edge in personal transportation, each produced by artisans and individual craftsmen.
Before this time most fishing lures were made by individual craftsman.
I would just like to make one point: very small firms, individual craftsmen, are weak in the world market; they cannot make it.