What is "handmade"

Usage examples of "handmade".

White design, the woodwork was painted white and the windows were hung with handmade Battenberg lace.

I want to start a business -- handmade furniture, custom cabinetwork -- and I need my future partner checked out.

Brown and weathered men with burros three or four in tandem atotter with loads of candelilla or furs or goathides or coils of handmade rope fashioned out of lechugilla or the fermented drink called sotol decanted into drums and cans and strapped onto packframes made from treelimbs.

Herba euphrasia, and a beautiful handmade blue ceramic jar to keep it in.

Vocational Educator Larsen, or the David Larsen who paints handmade inorganic toys and designs gastrointestinal recycling worms for export to Manichean survivalists?

She thought of Kalu, carefully forging real handmade letters by remote AI from his post at the bottom of the Pacific, and her heart squeezed itself closed over a sudden microburst of loving kindness.

The sign was handmade, nailhead letters in pine, swinging gently over a square wooden gate.

Handmade things, mostly, that smelled like Mudd, a sachet of sour vinegar and rosewater perfume.

Out in the streets, the various guilds and groups that ruled Shuttlefield were carousing beneath the autumn sun: handmade banners flew above tents and shacks, while drunks staggered about with beads around their necks and wildness in their eyes, proclaiming everyone they saw to be their best friend.

The colors were bright, crazy like Memphis, only this was handmade and hand-painted, with two legs made out of tree limbs that had been done in stripes and spangles, a third leg made out of a very pointy pyramid, and the fourth leg a sheet of wood covered in galvanized metal.

And Mirrors wear armor less and less, and off-duty civvies are handmade.

Bible, some clothes and blankets and quilts, a pair of handmade lace curtains, a pewter pitcher and a silver tray, and the drawings for the cream can that would one day make them rich.

Bible, some clothes and blankets and quilts, a pair of handmade lace curtains, a pewter pitcher and a silver tray, and the drawings for the ingenious cream can that would one day make them rich.

Racks of demented comic books loomed beside tables littered with hookahs and handmade clay pipes.

To the other side lay an area that first appeared to be a confused combination of books, greeting cards, handmade crafts, houseplants and various gift items.