handloom
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of handloom
Example Sentences
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She asked her designer to make a traditional handloom saree that brought together two worlds - Palestine and Purulia.
From BBC • Sep. 20, 2025
There were protests and riots throughout the country, from handloom weavers trashing newly invented factory machinery to anti-slavery campaigners boycotting sugar.
From The Guardian • Nov. 16, 2017
The original Luddites were handloom weavers in England who smashed and burned power looms and mills on the theory that technology posed a fundamental threat to human well-being.
From Slate • Aug. 6, 2014
For example, India’s own handloom textile industry was almost put out of business by imported British textiles.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012
Yet are we no longer the child; we look now for no new world at the top, only for a little garden and a tiny house, and a handloom in the house.
From A Window in Thrums by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)
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