handloom
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of handloom
Example Sentences
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But the handloom weavers, who worked from home and traditionally took Mondays off after working all weekend, were available.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 4, 2018
Craft production like handloom weaving was destroyed everywhere, including in Britain itself.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2015
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
The spinning-wheel, the handloom, the blacksmith's hammer, were replaced by the spinning-machine, the power-loom, the steam-hammer; the individual workshop, by the factory implying the co-operation of hundreds and thousands of workmen.
From Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Engels, Friedrich
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