Definition of Handlooms

1. handloom [n] - See also: handloom

Lexicographical Neighbors of Handlooms

handler
handlers
handles
handless
handlike
handline
handling
handling (psychology)
handling charge
handling cost
handlings
handlist
handlists
handlock
handloom
handlooms (current term)
handly
handmade
handmaid
handmaiden
handmaidenhood
handmaidenly
handmaidens
handmaids
handmake
handmakes
handmaking
handmark
handmarks
handoff

Literary usage of Handlooms

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of Mankind by Friedrich Ratzel (1898)
"handlooms were formerly to be found in every house, and spinning, 1 Din. the late Shah of Persia ; of Turkish blood. (From a photograph. ..."

2. Capital (1888)
"That the handlooms are, as a: present, grossly under-utilised, ú proved by the fact that production a loom a day is not even 3 metres. ..."

3. The Cutlery Trades: An Historical Essay in the Economics of Small-scale by Godfrey Isaac Howard Lloyd (1913)
"In the silk industry of Lyons there were, in 1884, only 20000 Jacquard handlooms in use, as compared with 40000 ten years earlier.4 In other trades, ..."

4. The Chartist Movement by Mark Hovell (1918)
"It was estimated that there were in the Glasgow area in 1838 36000 handlooms devoted mainly to cotton,1 but in a small percentage of cases to a mixed silk ..."

5. Annual Report of the Commissioner of Labor by United States Bureau of Labor, United States, Carroll Davidson Wright (1902)
"Second year: Cotton manipulation, machine drawing, textile chemistry and dyeing, designing, handlooms, applied mechanics, warp preparation, weaving, ..."

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