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- noun The art or trade of a
clothmaker .
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Examples
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He was the author of a series of treatises describing clothmaking processes, from the initial degreasing of wool to the ultimate finishing operations for cottons.
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One was from the important clothmaking guild, one from the associated papermaking guild, another a master armorer, and Linscott.
Soul of the Fire Goodkind, Terry 1999
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Although dealing less explicitly with schooling, Shimizu's essay on pattern books and clothmaking has similarly cogent conclusions.
Review of Women's Education in Early Modern Europe. A History, 1500-1800 1999
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Basic farming and clothmaking tools, and some half familiar terms that were also tools.
Destiny's Road Niven, Larry 1997
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Their sister was Naamah, the lovely one, whom the Middle Ages made the wife of Noah and inventor of clothmaking.
MYTH IN BIBLICAL TIMES FRANCIS LEE UTLEY 1968
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Gloucester, Wales, London, and also Ireland; and clothmaking had become so large an industry that agriculture had suffered considerably.
Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland F. J. Widgery
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The existence of Verviers as a clothmaking town dates from 1480.
Belgium From the Roman Invasion to the Present Day Emile Cammaerts 1915
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It was a specialized industry, the natural development of the ancient clothmaking of the Menapii mentioned above, and the predecessor of the cloth-weaving for which Flanders acquired a world-wide reputation during the subsequent centuries.
Belgium From the Roman Invasion to the Present Day Emile Cammaerts 1915
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The development of tapestry contributed also to fill up the gap caused by the decadence of clothmaking.
Belgium From the Roman Invasion to the Present Day Emile Cammaerts 1915
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So important a part of Guildford's life had clothmaking become under
Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker 1912
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