plaiters

Let us suppose the first caste to employ _ten thousand_ cultivators; the second caste to employ _three thousand_ knitters and plaiters; the third caste _one thousand_ masons, miners, and carpenters.

Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman Giberne Sieveking

In this state it is bought by the plaiters, who in their turn expose for sale yards of plaited straw to the hatters.

The South of France—East Half C. B. Black

Farther, too, is the little church of S. Ansano, where there is a host of fair pictures, and then suddenly you are in the great Piazza, littered with the booths of the straw-plaiters, in the keen air of

Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition Edward Hutton 1922

Second Form girls, to whom had been assigned this portion of the programme, contrived admirably to convey the original spirit of the dance; their steps seemed so fresh and spontaneous and gay, their actions so prompt and appropriate, and all went in such excellent time to the music that the approving spectators accorded them an encore, much to their satisfaction, for they were anxious not to be beaten by their rivals the maypole plaiters.

The Youngest Girl in the Fifth A School Story Angela Brazil 1907

This was the case with the crinoline-hoop makers of Yorkshire, the straw-plaiters of

The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production 1899

All that is vital in it is the ecclesiastical establishment, which still clings, with true ecclesiastical conservatism, to the hill-top city, and the trade of the straw plaiters, who make Leghorn straw goods and pester the visitor with their flimsy wares, taking no answer to all their importunities save one in solid coin of good King

Science in Arcady Grant Allen 1873

One workman can, with the aid of a child to carry off the shavings, keep several plaiters employed.

Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs 1863

Marian said she should be delighted; and my father and I at once expressed our readiness to become plaiters and weavers, and to give our thoughts to the subject; -- though, of course, we could not expect to accomplish much at first, as we had very little knowledge of the art we proposed to exercise.

The Wanderers Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orinoco William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

His wife Ann and daughters Sarah and Elizabeth were all straw plaiters.

The Bookworm 2009

All the women in the family, from 59 year old Sophia down to 11 year old Sarah were straw plaiters, an occupation which deserves a post of its own.

The Bookworm 2009