gentle craft

noun2

1. •
   (no longer used) Shoemaking or cobbling; the trade of a shoemaker or cobbler.

   • Here Hans Sachs, the cobbler-poet, laureate of the gentle craft, Wisest of the Twelve Wise Masters, in huge folios sang and laughed. — 1845
2. •
   (no longer used) Fishing; angling.

   • [O]n Sundays he went fishing, being devoted to the gentle craft. — 1892