They were not less astonished when she wanted to learn the work of the weavers in her brothers' satinet mills.
Gerard Denis and theweavers had been stirring up the people against him.
The king, however, was wiser than his people, he saw that although the English weavers were able to produce coarse cloths, yet that all of the finer sort had to be imported from the Continent.
There were also gilds of weavers in London, Lincoln, and Oxford in existence before 1130.
The first craft gilds which come into notice, were those of the weavers; the weavers of London date their charter from the reign of Henry I.
By 1165 we find a kind of corporation of weavers at Winchester, who preserved their own customs almost as closely as the Jews, contributed independently (like other aliens) to fiscal demands, and even chose their own aldermen.
Language also testifies to the constant intercourse with Italy; among the Latin words that became current in Asia Minor not a few proceed from such intercourse, as indeed in Ephesus even the guild of the wool-weavers gives itself a Latin name.
In Philadelphia, a considerable town of Lydia, we know the names of two out of the seven districts: they are those of the wool-weavers and the shoemakers.
The poor weavers who lived in the mountain village had all they could do to nourish wife and child.
The voices of several angels were heard at the same moment, for many of the poor weavers of Dorbstadt were to be found in the Heavenly Kingdom.
The weavers were ground down by the large manufacturers, until an energetic man built a factory in our village, and paid them better wages.
And you after her," said Elspeth, "like the weaversthat wouldna fecht.
They were not shadows; they were Thrums weavers drilling, with pikes in their hands.
Thus the weavers who had not escaped at once were driven before them, and soon hemmed in between the two bodies of soldiers, when they were easily captured.
Already the weavers had helped Waster Lunny to stave off ruin, and they were now on their way to Whinbusses, keeping together through fear of mist and water.
All Thrums was out in its wynds and closes-- a few of the weaversstill in knee-breeches--to look at the new Auld Licht minister.
Our weavers are passionately religious, and so independent that they dare any one to help them, but if their wages were lessened they could not live.
Yon's twa weavers and a mason cursing the laird, and the man wi' the besom is the Master of Crumnathie.
To me it is a homely smell, which I draw in with a great breath, but it was as strange to Margaret as the weavers themselves, who, in their colored nightcaps and corduroys streaked with threads, gazed at her and Gavin.
Most of our weavers would have thought it as unnatural not to buy harvies in the square on the Muckle Friday, as to let Saturday night pass without laying in a sufficient stock of halfpennies to go round the family twice.
When Tosh signed that the weavers had done their all and failed, the two men looked in each other's faces, and Gavin's face was firm and the earl's working convulsively.
They merely told him that his wife had often been to Treen with yarn to sell, and, as she was a good spinster, they supposed the weavers gave her plenty of work.
Uncle Plato's family continued to be weaversof more than ordinary ability.
Like the loggers, the shingle weavers were routed time and again, but their spirit never died.
The Everett shingle weavers formed their union as a result of a successful strike in 1901.
Faith in agreements had gotten in its deadly work; the shingle weavers believed that the employers meant to keep their word.
He detailed the story of the arrests, deportations and other similar actions against the striking shingle weavers and the I.
Thompson had advocated that the shingle weavers set fire to the mills and win their strikes by methods of terrorism.
Instead of gaining ground by the move, the shingleweavers union lost in membership and subsequently claimed that industrial unionism was a failure in the lumber industry.
Capitalism stood forth in all its hideous nakedness on that day of red madness, and public opinion was such that the striking shingle weavers had but to persistently press their point in order to win.
No mention was made of local conditions as Rowan had just come from another part of the country and was unaware that a shingleweavers strike was in progress.
Shingle weavers are set apart from the rest of the workers by their mutilated hands and the dead grey pallor of their cheeks.
Striking longshoremen from Seattle aided the shingle weavers on their picket line from time to time, and individual members of the I.
What, however, can be expected from stocking-weavers and such like?
Think of that, ye thin-gutted weavers of Manchester.
In his day, even weavers shall know the taste of geese, and factory-children smack their lips at the gravy of the great sirloin.
In This Series of Pictures the Spinners and Weavers Are in Native Costume.
So skilled were its weavers that the threads were of hair-like fineness.
For a long period it has been the home of weavers who found in the surrounding mountains and valleys the best of wool, but before the revival of the industry their patterns and workmanship were of an inferior character.
As is seldom the case with weavers who dwell in cities, these dye their own wool, using both vegetable and aniline dyes.
But in its place are the water motive and ribbon, which are less frequently employed by the weavers of any other country.
Yet amid these depressing surroundings and under these adverse conditions lived weavers who gave the name of their little village to some of the most beautiful rugs made in all the East.
A field completely covered with the small designs peculiar to Sehnas, or containing the disjunct forms of nomadic rugs, is never seen; and yet it is not improbable that many of the early Tabriz weavers were Kurds.
Indeed, in no other rugs of Persia are the traditions of Iranian weavers so much disregarded and Caucasian ideas so closely followed.
Many of the people are also largely engaged in the industry of weaving, but almost all weavers are now in the employ of large companies who furnish the materials and patterns.
As to the deftness and taste of the weavers the shawls themselves are the best testimony.
Many of the old weavers have taken to carpet-making, and the pashm used formerly for shawls is now being increasingly used for the finer kind of carpets.
And the owner of a Khaddar Bhandar does not buy it at a wholesale shop but he must wander to get the best Khaddar, he must meet the local weavers and induce them to weave hand spun yarn.
In Eastern Mysore cotton-weavers made cloth for home-use as silk weaversproduced a strong rich fabric.
The statistics of weavers show that they also were as numerous as the spinners.
But the greater part of the cloth-weavers made coarse cloth for country use to the value of Rs.
It means inducing the hereditary weavers to return to their noble calling and distributing home-spun yarn amongst them and selling their manufactures.
And the scholars' practical recognition of art will compel the attention of the weavers of India.
Dhangar weavers being locally available blankets after the Pandharpur and Dawangiri pattern are being prepared from this finer thread and different designs have been suggested to them.
The Madrasi weavers are used to pouring rice water (generally thrown away when the rice is boiled) on the yarn, before it is dried out in the manner described above.
The other method of sizing resorted to by theweavers is called hank-sizing.
There are enough weavers and enough looms in India to replace the whole of the foreign import of cloth.
If you are a Congress official or worker, you should get hold of the weavers within your jurisdiction, and place the foregoing propositions before them for acceptance and help them to the best of your ability.
What the worker in lichens tells us the other weavers of textile materials confirm.
For four years I supplied my hives with glass tubes and not once did the Cotton-weavers or the Leaf-cutters condescend to take up their quarters in the crystal palaces.
I bequeath to the future the task of telling us for what reasons the collectors of both cotton and resin leave a large pore in their shells, whereas all the other weavers close theirs completely.
To be sure," he thought, "he had nothing to risk in his own person; but yet he would prefer sending somebody else to bring him intelligence about the weavers and their work before he troubled himself in the affair.
So the two pretended weavers set up two looms, and affected to work very busily, tho in reality they did nothing at all.
Many Flemish weavers were driven from their native country by the cruel persecutions of the Duke d'Alva, in 1567.
In 1331, two weavers came from Brabant and settled at York.
At Bombay, in March 1898, a riot begun by Mahommedan weavers was not suppressed until several Europeans had been fatally injured.
Where his decision is not accepted without demur, he imposes upon the refractory weavers the expense of a curious ceremony, in which the planting of a bamboo post takes part.
The Kaikolans are a large caste of Tamil weavers found in all the southern districts, who also are found in considerable numbers in the Telugu country, where they have adopted the Telugu language.
At Coimbatore some hereditary weavers have become cart-drivers, and some cart-drivers have become weavers de necessite in the local jail.
A legend is current that the Nayakkan kings of Madura were not satisfied with the workmanship of the Kaikolans, and sent for foreign weavers from the north (Patnulkarans), whose descendants now far out-number the Tamil weavers.
The festival was organised by a class of weavers calling themselves Sankunram (Sengundar) Mudaliars, the inhabitants of seven streets in the part of Conjeeveram known as Pillaipalyam.
The weaversof South India, according to old Tamil poems, were formerly included in the Kammiyan or Kammalan caste.
In the Madras Census Report, 1901, the Kolis are described as being "a Bombay caste of fishermen and boatmen in South Canara; also a low class of Bengal weavers found in Ganjam.
The Kolis who were investigated in Ganjam are an Oriya-speaking class, who are apparently Telugu people who have settled in the Oriya country as weavers of coarse cloths, traders, and agriculturists.
Many Kaikolan families have now abandoned their hereditary employment as weavers in favour of agriculture and trade, and some of the poorer members of the caste work as cart-drivers and coolies.
The Spitalfields weavers made several riots and broke the looms of those who refused to join in their demands.
As in the cotton trade, the wages of weavers were high during the war, but the scarcity of material prevented all but the best workmen from finding employment and there was much distress among the rest.
On this a large number of Spitalfields weavers went to Richmond, on May 14, to seek help from the king in person.
On the other hand parliament, in 1773, under the pressure of a riot, passed an act empowering justices to fix the wages of the Spitalfields silkweavers and to enforce their ordinance.
Her husband, our grandfather, William Paton, had passed through a roving and romantic career, before he settled down to be a douce deacon of the weavers of Dumfries, like his father before him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "weavers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
