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
I have an old handloom of my grandfather’s; and I can go and hurry and fetch all the stuff up here somehow and I’ll work as fast as I can.
From The Best Short Stories of 1915 And the Yearbook of the American Short Story by O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)
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