0 a person whose job is weaving cloth and other materials (= making them by crossing threads over and under each other):
basket weavers
Maria was the granddaughter of a silk weaver and the daughter of a carpet weaver.
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.
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.
Clothiers and weavers experiencing hardship and who successfully obtained legislative favor had large memberships and were of stable trades.
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.
