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for most craftspeople they could not be ignored. The area that would determine how

successful a craftsperson would become or, in fact, whether a person could really
term himself/herself a craftsperson at all was often expressed in relation to how the

idea of professionalism was understood within craft circles. In the next chapter we
see what it meant for those who had become involved in craft to be an amateur or

professional craftsperson and how important education was as a determinant.

Constructing Craft