The principal handicraft is the production of stoneware crockery. From Wordnik.com. [The Meseta Purepecha] Reference
There was a movement, begun in the early Shwa years, to invest dignity in Japanese handicraft or folk art, the mingei movement, advocated by Yanagi Setsu (18891961). From Wordnik.com. [Cultural Trends] Reference
Would you also include, in the National Gallery, what may be called the handicraft of a nation -- works for domestic use or ornament?. From Wordnik.com. [On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature] Reference
Nevertheless let no one think that because sanitary nursing is the subject of these notes, therefore, what may be called the handicraft of nursing is to be undervalued. From Wordnik.com. [Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not] Reference
In an alcove to the side of one of the exhibits, a young man sat in a room full of a kind of handicraft we have not seen anywhere else. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-05-01] Reference
Things that can be bought and traded such as handicraft, commercial merchan - dise, ships, and many other articles, change hands more easily and ubiquitously than land. From Wordnik.com. [PROPERTY] Reference
Information on availability is not listed, though the company says the "handicraft" production process takes 25 days. From Wordnik.com. [PCWorld] Reference
The rest of Vietnam's 46-million-strong workforce is employed in other sectors such as handicraft villages or cooperatives, for whom no accident statistics exist. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference
Micro loans, which were given out to fund tourism-related activities such as handicraft, opening of travel agencies and food services saw a 13.25% decrease last year. From Wordnik.com. [Stabroek News] Reference
On the other hand, those employments which properly fall to the industrious class are ignoble; such as handicraft or other productive labor, menial services and the like. From Wordnik.com. [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference
I could not beg; I was master of no handicraft; nor was. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
Some of them took up at once a civil trade or handicraft. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Luther] Reference
He had never seen such fine, regular detail, even in the best handicraft. From Wordnik.com. [The Players] Reference
Men had not given up all their thought and time to handicraft for nothing. From Wordnik.com. [Daybreak; a Romance of an Old World] Reference
Every man ought to engage in some kind of work, either braincraft or handicraft. From Wordnik.com. [Sparkling Gems of Race Knowledge Worth Reading A compendium of valuable information and wise suggestions that will inspire noble effort at the hands of every race-loving man, woman, and child.] Reference
Industries: sugar, rum, cigarettes, several small shops producing handicraft items. From Wordnik.com. [The 1995 CIA World Factbook] Reference
The workshop is also an excellent school of applied arithmetic, as well as of practical handicraft. From Wordnik.com. [The American Missionary — Volume 48, No. 7, July, 1894] Reference
What things are sold in the bazaar that show the Eastern skill in handicraft? that show superstition?. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools] Reference
In the second place, the handicraft system had given a distinct political right and power to skilled workmen. From Wordnik.com. [The Family and it's Members] Reference
He was bred to a laborious handicraft occupation, at which he wrought industriously during a course of years. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
Nature had made her beautiful, but advancing years and too much art had all but destroyed Nature's handicraft. From Wordnik.com. [Little Lost Sister] Reference
The young Quakeresses picked up ideas and models for their artistic handicraft from the most unlikely sources. From Wordnik.com. [Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century] Reference
When men expressed themselves in their particular handicraft they found much of their joy in life in their work. From Wordnik.com. [Working With the Working Woman] Reference
Some of Mr. Lanois's handicraft was added later, as he tweaked a song's opening or altered Mr. Young's voice in a fade. From Wordnik.com. [Neil Young in a New Way] Reference
No handicraft is there, however peculiar it be, in which anyone could rival him, if John set his mind to it with a will. From Wordnik.com. [Cligés. English] Reference
Mr. Liston could draw the same anatomical picture mentally which Sir Charles Bell's handicraft could draw in reality of form and figure. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
The Kings 'coronation robes and mantles were beautiful specimens of handicraft, often after a king's death being given to the churches for vestments. From Wordnik.com. [Chats on Old Lace and Needlework] Reference
Variety of form belongs to all Javanese agriculture as the result of handicraft, for the peasant unconsciously puts his own personality into his toil. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Malay Archipelago] Reference
Money came most readily to those who had a handicraft, and there was hardly a house on the main road in which there was not an artificer of some kind. From Wordnik.com. [Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59] Reference
The same phenomenon may be produced artificially through the clouding of glass with suitable substances, as one finds in various glass handicraft objects. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
Early estimates suggest that up to 100,000 people may be laid off and a further 300,000 people -- simple farmers and handicraft workers -- affected in turn. From Wordnik.com. [Opinion: Let's Not Forget Bali] Reference
In haute couture's smaller-scaled parallel universe, designers have only their handicraft to help them make their mark on an industry blinded by brand names. From Wordnik.com. [Fashionably Discreet] Reference
This Horus of the smiths had a short or lame leg, to signify that agriculture or husbandry will halt without the assistance of the handicraft or mechanic arts. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed)] Reference
How deftly, by the by, Burton picks up the distinction between an inland city, living by handicraft, and a port city, handling weighty materials and feeding freely on commerce!. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873] Reference
While this is being accomplished the results of the change from handicraft to machine work in the family order must be understood and unsocial elements in that change minimized. From Wordnik.com. [The Family and it's Members] Reference
The training for self-supporting work, which came about so naturally from within the household in the handicraft stage of industry, now requires many public agencies of education. From Wordnik.com. [The Family and it's Members] Reference
We are now able to see and remedy some evils of child-labor in the factory system which passed unnoticed and for which no prohibitive law was in existence in the handicraft stage. From Wordnik.com. [The Family and it's Members] Reference
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