Artisanship

In the room […] are various tools which belonged to him, models of his own making, and specimens of his own turning in ivory, at which he was an adept: indeed, many of these specimens afford ample proof that he was no mean hand in this branch of artisanship […]

Plumbing, the young man announced, and the allied artisanships serve their purposes.

the crocheted doilies of missionary artisanship and hammered copper plates representing idealized tribal maidens or trumpeting elephants that were African bourgeois taste

There may be countless little imperfections or a breathtaking sense of perfection, but either way the almost devotional artisanship imbues common objects with an uncommon gravity, along with the sense of energy, growth and vulnerability that defines real bodies.