The Artisan’s Professional Veil In the early years of an apprenticeship, a craftsman’s world is narrow. Working under the banner of established firms like Drings of Bath and Szerelmey , one was rarely privy to the names or reputations of the clients. We were there to serve the building, not the biography of its owner.…
In the quietude of the workshop, where the lineage of a craftsman is measured in decades of discipline and the preservation of ancient skills, the intrusion of the modern “hater” is a curious phenomenon. It is a paradox of our age that those with the least understanding of a craft often possess the loudest voices.…