Early Artisans - Early Settler Life Author:Bobbie Kalman An introduction to crafts in the 18th and 19th centuries before the Industrial Revolution. Here are some of the artisans whose crafts and positions in the community are examined: the printer, bookbinder, blacksmith, metalworker, cooper, gunsmith, musical-instrument maker, dressmaker, milliner, wigmaker, cabinetmaker, potter, glassblower.