Craftsperson or artist who creates fabrics or textile artworks using weaving techniques

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Indian weavers. Gouache drawing.

A weaver working on a treadle-operated loom as a woman brings him more thread. Woodcut by J. Amman.

Saint Anastasius of Spalato: his severed head. Engraving.

A man weaving cloth. Watercolour by an Indian painter.

The linen and cotton broad-ware weavers apology: : Humbly addressed to the gentlemen manufacturers of Manchester, and all others whom it may concern. / By a well-wisher to trade.

The silent weaver : the extraordinary life and work of Angus MacPhee / Roger Hutchinson.

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A weaver working on a treadle-operated loom as a woman brings him more thread. Woodcut by J. Amman.

Indian weavers. Gouache drawing.

The linen and cotton broad-ware weavers apology: : Humbly addressed to the gentlemen manufacturers of Manchester, and all others whom it may concern. / By a well-wisher to trade.

Saint Anastasius of Spalato: his severed head. Engraving.

The silent weaver : the extraordinary life and work of Angus MacPhee / Roger Hutchinson.