sloyd

American  

[sloid] / slɔɪd /

Or sloid,

noun

1. a system of manual training based on experience gained in woodworking, originally developed in Sweden.

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Etymology

Origin of sloyd

1880–85; < Swedish slöjd craft, industrial art, woodworking; cognate with sleight

Example Sentences

Home sloyd was installed in an institution of its own for training teachers at Nääs.

From Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by Hall, G. Stanley

Sometimes we go to the park, but when it storms we are glad to stay in the house and work at sewing or sloyd.

From Gerda in Sweden by McDonald, Etta Austin Blaisdell

Oh, all kinds of things—things I made up myself and things I learned how to do in sloyd in school.

From Maida's Little Shop by Gillmore, Inez Haynes

Besides the agricultural work in the Craig Colony, and that in the soap and broom factories and the brick-yard, the patients are taught blacksmithing, carpentry, dressmaking, tailoring, painting, plumbing, shoemaking, laundrying, and sloyd work.

From How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers by Bleyer, Willard Grosvenor

They are taught all sorts of handwork, basketry, weaving, knitting, modeling, and chair caning, and, when old enough, they are sent with the other children to sewing, cooking, sloyd and music classes.

From Five Lectures on Blindness by Foley, Kate M.