Example Sentences

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Some of her collaborators have taken to calling her mâallema, an Arabic word reserved for master craftswomen — but also, more literally speaking, “she who knows.”

From New York Times • Sep. 7, 2021

An adjacent wall holds two embroidered world maps, their political territories marked by national flags, commissioned from Afghan craftswomen by the Italian artist Alighiero Boetti.

From Washington Post • Jul. 13, 2019

Birkey had heard of other programs across the country that paired at-risk kids with master craftsmen and craftswomen.

From Washington Times • Sep. 12, 2015

Included are patchwork quilts, woven bags and note cards; proceeds will benefit literacy and other programs for the craftswomen, sponsored in Egypt by the Association for the Protection of the Environment.

From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2011

The world must be better for her work; and looking back over the sometimes toilsome paths of authorship, this surely, above all others, is the guerdon all craftswomen of the pen should strive to win.

From Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign A Book of Appreciations by Alexander, Mrs.