The nicety of his own handicraft was the cause of the disaster.

When the old man saw what had happened, he damned his own handicraft in wing-making: "devovitque suas artes."

I was soon able to turn the seam, and knit plain; but was forced to stop very often to admire my own handicraft.

The painter stepped back a pace or two and examined his own handicraft, with his head on one side, in a very critical attitude.

"Perhaps," replied the Assistant, "we ought to make a secret of the tricks of our own handicraft.