Sentence examples for textile artisans from inspiring English sources

In the early 19th century a group of English textile artisans calling themselves the Luddites staged a machine-trashing rebellion.

He took me up to the Elder Cabal's meeting room in the library and talked about his own concerns about 2025 — like whether anyone will still be reading books, and whether networked knowledge will do to intellectuals what the Industrial Revolution did to the Luddite textile artisans.

Long before her star turn as the matriarch of Missoni — the fashion powerhouse that includes multiple clothing lines, a home collection and a soon-to-be-introduced hotel brand — she inherited a knack for mix-and-match style from her family of textile artisans.

After interviewing more than twenty textile artisans and cataloging 150 pieces in perfect use, the authors establish a typology of Chiloté textiles and identify determining elements of the island's own designs, many of which have remained unchanged for more than a hundred years.

In this small village, known for its hand-woven rugs, he and his family are among a small group of textile artisans working to preserve the use of plant and insect dyes, techniques that stretch back more than 1,000 years in the indigenous Zapotec tradition.

In the early 19th century, British textile artisans protested the Industrial Revolution with the anti-technology "Luddite movement".

RIDGEWOOD Unitarian Society of Ridgewood North Jersey Fiber Artss Festival," featuring workshops, demonstrations, food and shopping for knitters, quilters, weavers, and all fiber and textile-related artisans.

Locally made (in New York City) and globally sourced, Cienne offers garments made using textiles from artisans around the world.

In fashion or home décor, rich textiles and artisan construction can be sacrificed in order to achieve lower prices.

"Galleries are welcoming craftsmen and textile designers, but artisans are also open to young graduates with an artistic vision".

In September, when I set out on what will be a two-year project to tell the stories of disappearing cultural heritage in the Middle East, I found myself struggling to grasp the magnitude of upheaval because of war: countless lives lost and upended, archaeological sites destroyed, soap factories bombed, textile weavers and artisans in exile, religious communities and ancient languages vanishing.