0 a person whose job is weaving cloth and other materials (= making them by crossing threads over and under each other): --
Maria was the granddaughter of a silk weaver and the daughter of a carpet weaver.
basket weavers
The rapid expansion of weaving boosted the status and skill of weavers.
Indebted weavers wishing to leave a karkhana usually had to persuade their new employer to pay off their advance.
Alternatively, these whorls may not represent a spinning industry at all, but rather areas where weavers consumed surplus thread.
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.
Similarly, there was no sizeable difference between the incomes of a domestic weaver and a domestic servant.
That is to say, they were framework knitters, handloom weavers, mill operatives, building workers, general labourers, shopkeepers, craftsmen, and so forth.
It was not paying enough to be taken up by specialist weavers and thus subjected to guild-like barriers.
The phenomenon of the weavers running away from their looms and villages was, therefore, increasingly becoming a grim reality.
