jps wrote:
On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 06:28:18 -0400, HK wrote:


*Interesting* that you use the word crafts, since it is also the word
many top-end construction trades use to describe their skill sets. The
etymology for that comes out of the craft guilds of the Middle Ages, as
does the word journeyman, which in those days was a young man who
completed an apprenticeship and set off, literally, on a journey through
his parts of Europe to pick up even more skills from craftworkers in
other cities.

Mr. Netweaver understands what "craft" is, he just doesn't like my
politics and wanted to affix a "light on the feet" attribution to me.

Crafts are what's disappearing in America and it's a sad state of
affairs. Even when I turned wrenches as a kid, there were those who
truly understood a mechanism and those who replaced parts. The ratio
is going the wrong direction.

I'm truly in bliss when fashioning something out of scrap materials to
solve a problem.


Several of the high-skill construction unions sponsor annual craft
awards programs each year at the local and international level, and one
such union actually changed its name some years ago to incorporate the
term "craftworkers" I've been to a couple of "craftworker" expositions
and fairs, either held as separate events or incorporated into other
expositions. Recognition of the "craft" is important to workers with
finely honed skillsets.



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