Eksempler på loom

• Textile production was the dominant manufacturing sector, whether measured by employment at spindles and wheels and at looms, or by value of output.

• In the second quarter of the nineteenth century perhaps 200,000 weavers left their looms rather than work for so little.

• In the 1930s the cloth manufacturers made some attempts to increase the number of power looms per weaver above the standard four.

• The appraisers did not invariably specify what type of looms were present in cases where there were two or more.

• Most 'poor' weavers owned their own looms, but the few who did not were poor.

• From the prices noted for the looms, it appears that the great majority of the forty-two cases involved two broadlooms.

• The master weaver with two or more looms was both an independent artisan and an employer of labour.

• At the contest, both weavers set up their looms.

• However, the fear of busting the curve and causing the other student to fail the course now looms large.

• Because a significant portion of the labour force was becoming redundant, pauperization loomed large.

• Perspectives looms when we turn to courts rather than regulatory agencies for controls.

• However, the threat of oil-dependent nations discovering vast new reserves or developing energy policies that do not rely on fossil fuels looms on the horizon.

• What once loomed large has shrunk in significance.

• To add to his political troubles, financial bankruptcy loomed.

• Weaving families generally owned their own modest houses, their looms and their other tools, though frequently these served as security against debts to moneylenders.