hand-loom

Is it not true that a machine-loom will weave more cloth and weave more cheaply than a hand-loom?

Chapter 8: The Machine Breakers 2010

"Is it not then highly irrational to break the machine-loom and go back to the clumsy and more costly hand-loom method of weaving?"

Chapter 8: The Machine Breakers 2010

The hand-loom weaver turned whistleblower had been fighting corruption in the local weavers 'cooperative for the past three years.

Violence against whistleblowers in India prompts calls for laws to protect them 2010

Under a health-insurance program introduced a few years ago, the Indian government has provided health-insurance coverage for the country's hand-loom weavers, a group of 6.5 million workers, 60% of them female, who are mostly illiterate and invariably poor.

Indian Weavers Shun Health Plan Vibhuti Agarwal 2009

In India, the hand-loom industry is the second-largest segment in the economy, after agriculture.

Indian Weavers Shun Health Plan Vibhuti Agarwal 2009

Much of the cotton thread was turned by hand-loom weavers into cheap and colourful cotton cloth which was sold around the world.

'The Industrial Revolutionaries' 2009

When we think of a factory, a sewing machine, a hand-loom, a computer, or other objects which have been produced for the purpose of making other, economically desirable things, reductionism does not seem too inappropriate.

Capital 2007

A single lantern sat on a desk showing the cot, the hand-loom, the heap of robes waiting for the launderer.

A Shadow in Summer 2006

It is the simplest and perhaps the most primitive form of hand-loom, and comb, shuttle, and roll, are all easily fashioned with an ordinary knife.

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

In that work the term weaver is used almost unfailingly to describe those who worked in the hand-loom industry.

Colonial Lists/Indian Power: Identity Politics in Nineteenth Century Telugu-Speaking India 2001