How to Use craftswoman in a Sentence

craftswoman

noun
  • Lott’s wife, Nicole, had done a Google search and ordered it from a craftswoman in Texas.
    Diane Bell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Nov. 2022
  • Fun fact: each hammock has the craftswoman’s name on the tag, which will make your dad feel like it was made just for him.
    Wendy Altschuler, Forbes, 11 June 2021
  • It was made for this house and inset with jeweled touches by a Michigan craftswoman.
    Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 9 Dec. 2017
  • The bag is made in Portugal by craftswomen following the ancient technique of weaving reed by hand.
    Minna Shim, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 July 2017
  • On the photography side, however, Gulick proves herself not just a fine craftswoman, but a varied one as well.
    David James, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Jan. 2020
  • These vintage materials are brought to rural parts of Ukraine in the Carpathian Mountains, where craftswomen weave new fabric out of the leftovers.
    Hazlitt, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Elly was a proficient sewing craftswoman during her adult life.
    Hartford Courant, courant.com, 4 Feb. 2018
  • With help from fair trade nonprofit Global Goods Partners, proceeds from items purchased on the site will help the craftswomen care for their families and send their children to school.
    Lauren Le Vine, Redbook, 21 Nov. 2013
  • The Rolex award funded the Pride and Enterprise mobile resource center, a bus that helped connect craftswomen across Kutch to share embroidery techniques and styles.
    National Geographic, 14 Dec. 2016
  • Suzanna Senda, 87, a craftswoman who made elaborate gingerbread houses and decorative baskets, died May 11 at a health care center in Derwood, Md.
    Washington Post, 7 June 2017
  • Suzanna Senda, 87, a craftswoman who made elaborate gingerbread houses and decorative baskets, died May 11 at a health-care center in Derwood, Md.
    Washington Post, 15 June 2017
  • All of the collection’s brightly colored reed bags are handmade by craftswomen in Portugal and are decorated with porcelain talisman charms that are also handmade in Galicia, Spain, where Alvarez is from originally.
    Brooke Bobb, Vogue, 26 Mar. 2018
  • An adjacent wall holds two embroidered world maps, their political territories marked by national flags, commissioned from Afghani craftswomen by the Italian artist Alighiero Boetti.
    Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 13 July 2019

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