hand-work

Though that's usually after I have done an hour or so of hand-work anyway, so it's not too much of a drain on my time.

Bound to happen... katelnorth 2008

One of these was already waiting - I actually quite like doing the hand-sewing on binding, I just haven't done much lately because of doing a lot of cross-stitch (I do hand-work while watching telly) and because now that I have a laptop, I often catch up on email during some telly watching.

Bound to happen... katelnorth 2008

He organized prisoners into ten committees: welfare; school; library and reading room; music; theater; cinematograph and gramophone; athletics and games; arts; woodcarving and hand-work; and religion.

Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I 2008

It was the iconoclastic effect of postmodernism coupled with the transition from hand-work to digital work in graphic design.

That orange with a straw stuck in it. Ann Althouse 2009

The United States was more technologically advanced than China, he wrote, but the latter showed “a marvelous skill, an individuality of design and delicacy of manipulation in their hand-work deserving of attentive study” (Philadelphia Public Ledger [12 May 1876]).

The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876 2005

Readers are therefore asked to correct the misrelation, which affords an instance of how our imperfect memories insensibly formalize the fresh originality of living fact — from whose shape they slowly depart, as machine-made castings depart by degrees from the sharp hand-work of the mould.

Wessex Tales 2006

There is also in hand-work a wide scope for the inventive faculty and the exercise of good taste (both in form and color) and skillful workmanship.

Scientific American, Volume XXIV., No. 12, March 18, 1871 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. Various

As the making of imitations of pearls is mainly hand-work and as many treatments are required for the best imitations, fairly high prices are demanded for these better products, and the appearance and permanency warrant such prices.

A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public Frank Bertram Wade

The mere energy lost through slow hand-work in those times, if transformed into electrical power, would probably have run all the mills and factories in

Woman's Life in Colonial Days Carl Holliday

He who makes the winds his messengers and the flames his servants, can do without thy hand-work, O little man.

The Parables of Our Lord William Arnot