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hand-loomed

British  

adjective

  1. (of a garment) made on a hand loom

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Shadrack Yao Agboli, a fugu weaver who also works with the National Commission on Culture, has a home workshop where long bands of hand-loomed fabric hang to dry in the afternoon sun.

From Barron's • Feb. 13, 2026

With the exception of some rudimentary re-creations, what’s visual in “The American Revolution” had to be conjured out of whole, hand-loomed cloth.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025

Dress up your table with these distinctive hand-loomed ikat double-sided napkins by Gregory Parkinson.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 4, 2021

In 2007, she found inspiration in a hand-loomed fabric sample that the Bauhaus-trained weaver Anni Albers had designed more than three-quarters of a century earlier.

From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2017

Keen on preserving her Nigerian identity and eager to propagate facets of Nigerian culture, she conceived the idea of lining high-quality leather bags with Aso-oke fabric, a hand-loomed cloth woven by Nigeria’s Yoruba people.

From Forbes • Aug. 8, 2014

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