handwoven
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4.2
- adjective
- /ˈhændˌwoʊvən/
:
tejido a mano
- She received a beautiful handwoven basket as a gift, made by local artisans using traditional techniques.
- handwoven textiles
- handwoven blankets
Examples
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We rhapsodize over handspun, handwoven cotton textiles, but more often than not ignore the popular appeal of Lurex.
Academic text (1990) -
The Virgin of Guadalupe here is represented by a dancer in a handwoven huipil.
Blog text (31) -
Keep family and friends warm with handwoven items.
Blog text (10) -
Handwoven, bright red silk and a silver pattern.
Blog text (24) -
In this photograph, four people wear handwoven textiles.
Academic text (2006) -
The next day, the bride, wrapped in a heavy, handwoven marriage blanket, is taken back to her parents' home, where she will wait for her husband.
Academic text (2001) -
A handwoven basket.
Fiction book (1991) -
Moctezuma and his men, dressed in bright handwoven costumes, dance an intricate pattern.
Academic text (1993) -
As is customary for a biki (birth celebration), the walls of the crowded and stuffy room were decorated with the colorful handwoven blankets.
Academic text (2001) -
Worn throughout a person's adult life, lamba, also called lamba fitafy (Fee 2002:78), are traditionally made of natural cotton, or better yet, of silk, and are preferably handwoven.
Academic text (2003)
Synonyms
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2.9
An item that a person makes with their hands instead of a machine, often with care
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3.9
Made by hand rather than by machine
Made by a person who weaves threads into cloth using a small frame
Made by hand, not by machine
A person makes it by hand rather than by machine
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Handwoven is made of the simple parts hand and woven, from the verb weave meaning 'to make cloth by crossing threads'. So handwoven means cloth or items made 'by hand' rather than by machine.