Sentence examples for weaving trades from inspiring English sources

Over the previous nine months, the Luddite revolt against new technology in the weaving trades that boosted profits but eliminated jobs had spread through the villages of the young lord's native Nottinghamshire.

It may not be entirely a coincidence that Britain's leading aesthete in the latter half of the past century was descended from a Paisley family who supplied twine to the weaving trade, and who at that time may well have shared the weavers' sentiment in agreeing with Cicero that flowers gave wondrous delight.

Milnrow did not expand until the introduction of a woollen weaving trade which began in the Late Middle Ages and continued until the 19th century.

The upland geography of the area constrained the output of crop growing, and so prior to industrialisation the area was used for grazing sheep, which provided the raw material for a local woollen weaving trade.

Oldham's soils were too thin and poor to sustain crop growing, and so for decades prior to industrialisation the area was used for grazing sheep, which provided the raw material for a local woollen weaving trade.

At the time they were created, between the 14th and early 15th centuries, the city-state of Ife was a centre of trade, weaving and bead manufacture.

Some of his most striking photographs, in stark black and white, depict an array of artisans and ordinary people around the world plying their trades: women weaving and churning butter, men binding books and making harps and pipe organs and even waxwork heads.

On this three-week trip, two travelers explore India and Bhutan, visiting villages where age-old trades like weaving, iron-working and pearl piercing are still practiced.

Trades weave themselves into the fabric of society.

They worked at such trades as blacksmithing, weaving, leatherworking, glassmaking, and ivory and wood carving.

The son of Huguenot refugees, Dollond learned the family trade of silk weaving.