| 单词 | handloom |
| 例句 | "It's not that I want to live in some slum and wear a handloom sari," she said. India's bold, brilliant daughter 2011-01-29T00:06:38Z For example, India’s own handloom textile industry was almost put out of business by imported British textiles. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z In western India, many young people are leaving soul-killing routines in factories to return to handloom weaving, which allows them to control their schedules while providing a creative outlet. These Alternative Economies Are Inspirations for a Sustainable World 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z But the handloom weavers, who worked from home and traditionally took Mondays off after working all weekend, were available. The bloody clash that changed Britain 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z There were protests and riots throughout the country, from handloom weavers trashing newly invented factory machinery to anti-slavery campaigners boycotting sugar. A mission for journalism in a time of crisis 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z A former handloom weaver, he pitched up in the west of Scotland from Ireland many years ago and never left after discovering Paisley's formidable textile heritage. Does Paisley deserve to be City of Culture? - BBC News 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z Craft production like handloom weaving was destroyed everywhere, including in Britain itself. Viewpoint: Why Britain does not owe reparations to India - BBC News 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z The handloom weavers of Bengal had produced and exported some of the world's most desirable fabrics, especially cheap but fine muslins, some light as "woven air". Viewpoint: Why Britain owes reparations to India - BBC News 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z The minister of handlooms and textiles was said to have “wailed.” Indian State in Mourning After Graft Conviction 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z 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. Karl Marx's ideas still resonate today 2013-05-16T11:00:31Z Back in 1811, skilled craftsmen—the so-called Luddites—attacked the new automated power looms designed to cost-effectively replace their handlooms and their jobs. The Short History of the Future of Manufacturing 2013-05-12T14:15:05.580Z This 20,000-strong community of former handloom weavers was once known for its Banarasi saris, which are traditionally finely woven and heavily brocaded, and therefore expensive. India Ink: The Other India: The Weavers of Varanasi 2011-09-21T11:46:15Z The Serbs do the most beautiful work with the handlooms, and it is all done with the pure wool from the sheep, which one sees the women spinning as they walk along the streets. My Diary in Serbia: April 1, 1915-Nov. 1, 1915 Fabrics of unbelievable beauty are turned out at handlooms and it is mountain women who lead in the work. Blue Ridge Country Other men made a handloom for demonstration purposes, which wove cloth before our eyes at a meeting of Yorkshiremen, at which I presided. The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship A certain branch of industry, we shall say—agriculture, handloom weaving, anything—is struck with decay, and its followers thrown out of employment. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 457 Volume 18, New Series, October 2, 1852 Receiving a common school education, he was apprenticed to a handloom weaver. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Until twenty years ago its every other room, earthen-floored and showing the rafters overhead, had a handloom, and hundreds of weavers lived and died Thoreaus "ben the hoose" without knowing it. Auld Licht Idylls Yet are we no longer the child; we look now for no new world at the top, only for a little garden and a tiny house, and a handloom in the house. A Window in Thrums It had a museum of Southwestern antiquities and curios, where a Navajo squaw sulkily wove blankets on a handloom for the edification of the guilded stranger from the East. The Blood of the Conquerors 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. The Best Short Stories of 1915 And the Yearbook of the American Short Story A handloom weaver in Paisley, of which place he is a native, Charles Fleming has, from early youth, devoted his leisure hours to the pursuits of elegant literature. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Walter Watson was the son of a handloom weaver in the village of Chryston, in the parish of Calder, and county of Lanark, where he was born, on the 29th March 1780. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century The poor handloom weavers—I grieve to think of the hardships they suffer. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 420 Volume 17, New Series, January 17, 1852 The handloom weavers in two of the suburbs of Philadelphia started cooperative associations at the same time. A History of Trade Unionism in the United States The handloom weavers were almost entirely without employment. Thrift We traversed the length of Springfield, a stone-built village of whitewashed, one-storied cottages, in which we could see handloom weavers at work, nearly fifty of them being employed in that industry. From John O'Groats to Land's End He originally followed the occupation of a handloom weaver, but was more devoted to the pursuits of literature than the business of his trade. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Lace and crochet come out of the cabin, the yarn from the wool of the 'mountainy' sheep, carded and spun at home, is feeding the latest type of hosiery knitting machine and the hereditary handloom. Ireland In The New Century He was a St. Bees man, the son of a handloom weaver, speaking broad Cumberland and hopelessly "dished" by a hard word in the Bible. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 Two kinds of cloth are now made by the natives from the abacá, called sinamay and tinampipi; in making them, they use only primitive handlooms. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 03 of 55 1569-1576 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century Improvements in machinery and the development of steam power squeezed out the handlooms of Ulster and the watermills of other parts of the country. Is Ulster Right? Every parish had spinning wheels and handlooms in some of its homes on which the women turned out the heavy druggets or étoffes du pays from which most of the men's clothing was made. Crusaders of New France A Chronicle of the Fleur-de-Lis in the Wilderness Chronicles of America, Volume 4 Who should know so well as I that it is but a handloom compared to the great guns that reverberate through the age to come? Margaret Ogilvy It has cotton mills for spinning and weaving, besides many handlooms, and factories for ginning and pressing cotton. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 Gérardmer is famous for its cheeses; another local industry is turnery and the weaving of linen, the linen manufactories employing many hands, whilst not a mountain cottage is without its handloom for winter use. In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" The women make the best blankets here with handlooms, and do the principal heavy work. Travels in Morocco, Volume 2. This was even more the case than is now the preparation of woolen fabrics upon the handlooms of the families. School History of North Carolina : from 1584 to the present time He had met Warner the handloom weaver in his way, and enlisted his powerful influence with the people on his side. Sybil, or the Two Nations Capitalists, in some places, had brought together a few handloom weavers to make cloth for sale, and the famous shoemakers of Massachusetts commonly worked in groups. The Age of Invention : a chronicle of mechanical conquest My next visit was to a factory of handloom silk-weavers, where 180 hands, half of them women, are employed. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan |
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