handloom

American  

[hand-loom] / ˈhændˌlum /

noun

1. a loom operated manually, in contrast to a power loom.

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Etymology

Origin of handloom

First recorded in 1825–35; hand + loom ¹

Example Sentences

Last year, she interned with the production company Handloom Pictures, which decided to make a video about her story.

From The Guardian • Mar. 14, 2017

Handloom weavers’ resistance to new machines earned them a pejorative name—Luddites—that has become a byword for all those who try in vain to stop technological progress.

From Economist • Aug. 13, 2015

Handloom and handmill, earthenware jars, clay lamps, a mattress, and perhaps a tea-kettle fulfil all requirements.

From Morocco by Forrest, A. S. (Archibald Stevenson)

Handloom weaving is now about as hopeless a job as trying to extract sunlight out of cucumbers; but at that time it was a paying air.

From Our Churches and Chapels Their Parsons, Priests, & Congregations Being a Critical and Historical Account of Every Place of Worship in Preston by Atticus