1
: one that weaves especially as an occupation
2
: any of numerous Old World passerine birds (family Ploceidae) that resemble finches and typically construct elaborate nests of interlaced vegetation
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For four centuries the Gobelins Manufactory has made tapestries here, and today the government still pays dozens of weavers to carry on by hand.
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airmail.news, 28 Dec. 2024
The Institut pour les Savoir-Faire Français, formerly known as the Institut National des Métiers d’Art, set out to quantify the value of manual activities via a broad survey of skilled artisans such as woodworkers, stone cutters, leather goods-makers, weavers, glassblowers and more.
—Joelle Diderich, WWD, 26 Nov. 2024
The Met just staged a comprehensive exhibition putting 20th-century weavers (Anni Albers, Lenore Tawney, Olga de Amaral) together with ancient Andean artists spanning the first millennium BCE to the 16th century.
—Carlos Valladares, ARTnews.com, 28 Oct. 2024
There are no indigenous weavers, nor does the exhibition feature any reference to the weaver women who produced Intel microchips on the Navajo reservation, a story that has been recounted in the art world at least since the inclusion of Marilou Schultz at Documenta 14 in 2017.
—Lua Vollaard, ARTnews.com, 27 Dec. 2024
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airmail.news, 28 Dec. 2024
The Institut pour les Savoir-Faire Français, formerly known as the Institut National des Métiers d’Art, set out to quantify the value of manual activities via a broad survey of skilled artisans such as woodworkers, stone cutters, leather goods-makers, weavers, glassblowers and more.
—Joelle Diderich, WWD, 26 Nov. 2024
The Met just staged a comprehensive exhibition putting 20th-century weavers (Anni Albers, Lenore Tawney, Olga de Amaral) together with ancient Andean artists spanning the first millennium BCE to the 16th century.
—Carlos Valladares, ARTnews.com, 28 Oct. 2024
There are no indigenous weavers, nor does the exhibition feature any reference to the weaver women who produced Intel microchips on the Navajo reservation, a story that has been recounted in the art world at least since the inclusion of Marilou Schultz at Documenta 14 in 2017.
—Lua Vollaard, ARTnews.com, 27 Dec. 2024
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weaver
noun
weav·er
ˈwē-vər 
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: one that weaves
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