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Usage examples of "handweave".

The artwork is classic Americana, the rugs handwoven, and the canopy on the bed 249 With a clipped growl, she crushed the sheet in her -hand and sent it after the others.

An old olive-wood gateleg table holding handwoven place mats, ceramic plates, and cutlery was sheltered from the sun by a lacy network of jasmine trees growing up from the other side of the stucco wall.

He spread out Malay batiks and handwoven goods and threw laces and silks over the backs of the chairs, meanwhile telling her where he had found one piece or another, how he had haggled over it and purchased it for a song.

Academy: plushly carpeted, paneled in solid wood of exquisite grain, with handwoven drapes, custom desks the size of her bed at home, and soft-spoken staff waiting hand and foot on the senior members of the family.

The women of the Phylum of Caithness were famed for their handwoven textiles and, at each meeting of the Dail, erected several booths for bartering.

In the cities there are fabric mills and garment-making establish­ments, although a lot of handweaving and knitting is also done as a cottage industry in the more remote regions.

In some places, they were six deep, the floor a soft patchwork of handwoven wool.

But the cover is one of those Rekkian handwoven blankets in green and gold and tan, with flecks of orange in the gold.

Although they wore the same loose trousers and handwoven cloth shirts, they'd scrubbed their faces and slicked back their too-long, wet hair.

A canopied bed held center stage on a short raised platform, with rich handwoven hangings ready to enclose her when she slept.

If you didn't wear a real, honest-to-gods poncho, handwoven either by some poor Guatemalan peasant or somebody named Moonflower—if you had some kind of polyester fake, you were what we called a 'day-tripper' or a 'plastic hippie.