With their consent, Ta-Vwots began weaving the osiers about them, and in a little while he had them caged.
That tree still clasps the kindly mould, Its leaves still drink the twilight dew, And weaving its pale green with gold, Still shines the sunlight through.
And weaving garlands for her dog, 'Twixt chidings and caresses, A human flower of childhood shook The sunshine from her tresses.
Ste Catherine, with the railway station, and an important silk-weaving factory.
Native industries include the weaving of cloth and the making of mats and baskets.
Siculo-Saracenic weaving produced in coloured silks and gold threads at the famous Hotel des Tiraz in Palermo for an official robe of Henry IV.
It seems reasonable to infer that Persians and Syrians derived the art of weaving brocades from the Chinese, and as has been indicated, passed it on to Saracens as well as Europeans.
North Italian weaving of the 14th century; about 11 in.
Handloom-weaving is almost extinct, but several cotton mills have been opened.
Linen-weaving and leather-tanning are the principal industries.
The persons who told these stories were not weaving ingenious allegories about thunder-storms; they were telling stories, or giving utterance to superstitions, of which the original meaning was forgotten.
It will be the business of this chapter to tell how spinning and weaving machinery was introduced into the United States and how a Yankee inventor laid the keystone of the arch of clothing machinery by his invention of the sewing machine.
So Francis Cabot Lowell, scion of the New England family of that name, an importing merchant of Boston, conceived the idea of establishing weaving mills in Massachusetts.
In short, the chainstitch is a crochet or knitting stitch, while the lockstitch is a weaving stitch.
And so we term it, in weaving this web, in rowing at this oar, in passing this miserable way.
More valuable pieces of Oriental weaving are to be found among the diminutives than in the grand opera of textiles.
The origin of these strange forms of ornament as applied to carpet-weaving adds only another mystery to the subject.
However, the first national school of tapestry weaving was that at Chaillot, under the experienced teaching of workmen from Arras; afterwards transferred to the town of Gobelins, 1603, by Henri Quatre.
Woven tapestry is also called "Arras,"[393] because that town in the Netherlands was the home and school of the art of picture weaving in the Middle Ages.
The carpet-weaving traditions of Babylon appear to have been inherited by the occupiers of the soil, as it is supposed that the Saracens learned from Persia the art of weaving pile carpets, and imported thence craftsmen into Spain.
The Virgin weaving and | | | embroidering on frame a "basse-lisse.
The art of weaving tapestry was brought to England by William Sheldon, Esq.
Tapestry weaving is the intelligent craft of a practised hand guided by artistic skill.
Greeks had learned all the secrets of the art of weaving wool.
Much of this Gobelin weaving has lately been found in Egypt.
It is, perhaps, fortunate that the possibilities of tapestry weaving are restricted, and thus its very imperfections become the sources of its best qualities as decoration and comfort.
Her home was in the ninth heaven, in a pleasant garden, watered by innumerable fountains, where she passed her time spinning and weaving rich stuffs, in the midst of delights, ministered to by the inferior deities.
Arrived at the extreme west they transferred the sun to the dead of Mictlan, and went in quest of their spindles, shuttles, baskets, and other implements necessary for weaving or household work.
But it is just as likely that they used the weaving implements supplied to them at the grave, as those of the living.
Archeologists and ethnologists generally assume that the art of weaving on the loom was learned by the Navahos from their Pueblo neighbors.
Although the same characteristic styles of weavingand decoration are general, none of the larger designs are ever reproduced with exactness.
Among the Navahos the women invariably do the weaving though in the past a few men were experts in the art.
To see the Navaho in the Hopi House making silverware, or watch his wife weaving blankets, is one thing.
Their processes of weaving were exactly the same then as they are today, there being but slight difference between the methods followed before the advent of the whites and afterward.
The silverware he makes will be more fully described in the special chapter devoted to the subject, as will also the blanket weaving of his wife and children.
Day after day, however, one may see the carding, spinning and weaving processes in the Hopi House at El Tovar, where a little colony of Navahos is maintained.
I do not say that I will not do your weaving for you, but I must see first how it goes with my dairy work.
Glimpses of banks, caught through the doorway, showed when they turned from the highroad of the ocean up the river-lane which led into the Vinland bay; but the banks kept on unraveling like witch's weaving that has no end.
The machines intertwined their lessons with the basic drives, weaving a pattern of learned behavior with the life instinct.
Though if you could wait a day or two, we will be having in a new fabric--a simulated Home Loom, complete with natural weaving mistakes.
He found Holden in the outer room, engaged in his usual employment, when at home, of weaving baskets.
The appearance of Ohquamehud indicated no hostility when he presented himself before the Recluse, whom he found weaving baskets in front of his cabin, nor did his visit seem to surprise the latter.
Her form was lith as the willow, her eyes sparkled like the morning star, her step was that of a bounding fawn, and her fingers were skilful in weaving the quills of the porcupine.
On the next floor below was the weaving room, and here he soon learned that the overseer considered that he could get along very successfully without his help.
The idea of weaving shoddy into cloth is new to me.
Never before had I so realised the miracle of the continued race, the creation and recreation, the weaving and changing and handing down of fleshly elements.
His work was not enough to supply the gap: for Christophe had grown used to weaving the image of his friend into his work.
She thought of the child left by its mother, of the happiness of bringing it up, and weaving about its little soul the web of her dreams and her love.
Helen's weaving the events of the Trojan war in a veil is an agreeable fiction; and one might suppose that it was inherited by Homer, and explained in his Iliad.
This debt dates from the time when it was the intention to induce some weavers from the opposite coast to come here for the weaving of cloth for the Company.
I think it would be best to discharge them, and no advance should be given to them in future, nor should they be employed in theweaving of cloth for the Company.
I will tell you, sir; I had been across the Berwyn to carry home a piece of weaving work to a person who employs me.
They carry on a slack industry in the form of weaving ponchos from guanaco wool.
He taxed the people of the south a bolt of cotton a head, and they paid it only by taking the cotton out of their clothes and weaving it.
If the king’s pander heard of a beautiful slave anywhere she was seized and brought to this palace which was also her prison and where she spent her time in weaving in company with many other women who had been similarly “honored.
He brought also men capable of teaching one hundred of the useful trades, amongst which silk culture and weaving are the only two specifically named.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "weaving" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
