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

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.

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

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

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

In 1886 a teacher was brought to Boston from Sweden to introduce Swedish sloyd, and a teacher-training school which has been very influential was established there, in 1889.

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