weaver
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His missing forearm prevented him from immediately returning to his previous occupation as a weaver.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026
Shadrack Yao Agboli, a fugu weaver who also works with the National Commission on Culture, has a home workshop where long bands of hand-loomed fabric hang to dry in the afternoon sun.
From Barron's ● Feb. 13, 2026
Another old friend, Deborah Needleman, left her high-powered job as a magazine editor and became an expert basket weaver.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025
The influx was such that a huge part of London's East End became known as "weaver town" as it transformed into a centre for the trade, led by migrants from across the English Channel.
From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2025
My heart had been broken beyond the repair of King Khosrou’s greatest weaver, and carried in it a hole so big it could be said to be made up entirely of one big flaw.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
The streets are also named for these weavers of words, so they’re overhead and underfoot.
From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2026
Unfazed, Mahama's government declared Wednesdays "fugu" day on his return home, with traders and weavers reporting a spike in demand for the centuries-old attire since.
From Barron's ● Feb. 13, 2026
Because “the demand for woven cloth could fluctuate wildly,” she writes, “as quickly as weavers remembered the good wages, memories of periods of acute hardship came flooding back.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
Through November, the museum features an open-air spider pavilion, a ticketed exhibit that allows visitors to walk amid hundreds of spiders known as orb weavers and their intricate webs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2025
Everybody came out—hay farmers, clerks, merchants, fishermen, crabbers, carpenters, loggers, net weavers, truck farmers, junk dealers, real estate brigands, hack poets, ministers, lawyers, sailors, squatters, millwrights, cedar rats, teamsters, plumbers, mushroom foragers, and holly pruners.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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