Definitions
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- noun Someone who participates in a particular
handicraft , either as ahobby or as a small business
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a creator of great skill in the manual arts
Etymologies
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Examples
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To whit, I've completed 5 pieces (that's 5 finishes in crafter-speak), and am currently working on 3 others, excited about them all.
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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Most common to the home crafter is beeswax because of its pricing and easy availability.
Lipstick making - ingredients & melting Anne-Marie 2008
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A crafter is selling this totally nonfunctional (but weirdly compelling) knitted power-cable on Etsy for $15.
Boing Boing: January 22, 2006 - January 28, 2006 Archives 2006
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An Etsy crafter is selling this hyper-geeky ring sporting a polyhedral 20-sided die in place of a gemstone.
Boing Boing: September 24, 2006 - September 30, 2006 Archives 2006
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My favorite part about being a crafter is the community.
What is Craftivism? Division over the Definition Explodes an Etsy Team 2009
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I was becoming known as a crafter, and yet I had to bargain more and more, rather than less and less.
The Death of Chaos Modesitt, L. E. 1995
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What a "crafter" personality likes might be different from rewards that motivate other player types. tradable ingredient marketplace and the player's ingredient bank
Innovation I 2005
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The closest equivalent in today's MMO games is the "crafter," who creates items.
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He was, as appears to be the too-obvious definition that seems to cow reviewers by its obviousness, the true crafter of a postmodern 'sincerity' -- a seemingly impossible task in the wake of Pynchon and the psychosexual slapstick of characters like "Oedipa Maas" and "Tyrone Slothrop."
Omer Rosen: Footnoting David Foster Wallace: Part 1 Omer Rosen 2011
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He was, as appears to be the too-obvious definition that seems to cow reviewers by its obviousness, the true crafter of a postmodern 'sincerity' -- a seemingly impossible task in the wake of Pynchon and the psychosexual slapstick of characters like "Oedipa Maas" and "Tyrone Slothrop."
Omer Rosen: Footnoting David Foster Wallace: Part 1 Omer Rosen 2011
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