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An estimated 1 million sari weavers are facing almost certain ruin.
Flemish weavers, spinners, and dyers transformed the wool into desirable cloth.
The power loom wiped out the handloom weavers on account of its greater productivity.

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Examples of weaver

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Yet these relationships allowed weavers quite differing degrees of control over what they produced.
Finally, weavers exerted a great deal of leverage in the recruitment process.
In any case, the relationship between the line jobber and the weavers, in particular, grew increasingly fractious.
Among jute workers only weavers were not employed on every day basis, as their work required much more time to learn than other workers.
The latter were formed around refugee occupation groups such as weavers and shoe makers as well as localities.
During the porfiriato, the mills expected weavers to clean their looms without pay.
The phenomenon of the weavers running away from their looms and villages was, therefore, increasingly becoming a grim reality.
It was not paying enough to be taken up by specialist weavers and thus subjected to guild-like barriers.
That is to say, they were framework knitters, handloom weavers, mill operatives, building workers, general labourers, shopkeepers, craftsmen, and so forth.
Similarly, there was no sizeable difference between the incomes of a domestic weaver and a domestic servant.
The rapid increase in cloth production per household or per capita implies that domestic weavers devoted an increasing proportion of their working hours to weaving.
Alternatively, these whorls may not represent a spinning industry at all, but rather areas where weavers consumed surplus thread.
Indebted weavers wishing to leave a karkhana usually had to persuade their new employer to pay off their advance.
The rapid expansion of weaving boosted the status and skill of weavers.
Most had once been weavers and still retained a high degree of weaving skill.
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