weaver
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The film has an A-list cast, with other stars including Peter Dinklage as the basket weaver, Elizabeth Debicki as the tailor's wife, and Richard E Grant as the village doctor.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Researchers from several South American institutions have identified a new species of crevice weaver spider, expanding what scientists know about the Pikelinia genus.
From Science Daily ● May 1, 2026
“Getting Native people out into nature is going to bring that tribal stewardship with it. The basket weaver, she can’t help herself; she’s going to care for those basket weaving materials.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026
Shadrack Yao Agboli, a fugu weaver who also works with the National Commission on Culture, has a home workshop where long bands of hand-loomed fabric hang to dry in the afternoon sun.
From Barron's ● Feb. 13, 2026
For me she would forever be a mythic weaver in the basement of an ancient house in Ardestan.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
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The loom put weavers out of work, he added, but it raised living standards for everyone who came after.
From Barron's ● Mar. 30, 2026
Because “the demand for woven cloth could fluctuate wildly,” she writes, “as quickly as weavers remembered the good wages, memories of periods of acute hardship came flooding back.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
Through November, the museum features an open-air spider pavilion, a ticketed exhibit that allows visitors to walk amid hundreds of spiders known as orb weavers and their intricate webs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2025
Her organisation supports female weavers, whom she and many others recognise as skilled artisans, through education and training.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2025
Some of the brilliant Ionian thinkers were the sons of sailors and farmers and weavers.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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