sloyd
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of sloyd
1880–85; < Swedish slöjd craft, industrial art, woodworking; cognate with sleight
Example Sentences
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This, however, was not the Swedish sloyd, but a type of work especially adapted to secondary-school instruction.
From The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization by Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson
The value of playgrounds and gardens in cities, and of children's classes in sloyd or manual training in the country, cannot be over-estimated.
From Woman's Club Work and Programs First Aid to Club Women by Benton, Caroline French
Why, some of those little chaps in the sloyd room can chisel and plane like carpenters.
From The Story of Porcelain by Bassett, Sara Ware
From the earliest years manual dexterity should be cultivated by kindergarten work, modelling, sewing, knitting and sloyd.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various
In Sweden, likewise, the same principles have been introduced chiefly by Herr Otto Salomon, the director of the great sloyd seminarum at Naas.
From The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken by Muskett, Philip E.
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