handloom
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of handloom
Example Sentences
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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
At the beginning of the age of industrialisation in Britain, these elements were very evident: starving handloom weavers and factory operatives toiling for 14 hours a day in stiflingly hot, dust-ridden textile mills.
From The Guardian • May 16, 2013
For example, India’s own handloom textile industry was almost put out of business by imported British textiles.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012
But those who have been brought up at the pirn-wheel in Thrums, and in suchlike handloom towns, have the advantage of some of their fellow-worshippers to-night.
From Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents by Whyte, Alexander
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