piecer

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piecer

(ˈpiːsə)
n
(Textiles) textiles a person who mends, repairs, or joins something, esp broken threads on a loom
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Paper piecers of all levels are sure to find something they love in Penny Layman's inspiration-filled book.
George (19) was a spinner, 17-year-old Dowell was a smith, Livewell (15) and Diewell(13) were both piecers. But the family had two additions - Fairwell (10) and Matilda (six) who were both listed as scholars.
The North Carolina Quilt Project (NCQP) began with the Forsyth Piecers and Quilters Guild in Winston-Salem in 1983.
Excellent rotor yarn with yarn-like piecers will be produced by the new fully-automatic R 60 rotor spinning machine (operational).
Quilt piecers can save money and use discarded possibilities to produce lovely quilted results using this discussion of fast, easy quilt production.
Since they were small and able to crawl under machinery, they were used as piecers. At the end of a shift, the children were so tired that they got caught in unfenced machinery.
Ein shrewdisch fox ben sneaken insiden ein kastle und stealen ein grosser sack upfullen mit golden piecers. Geslingen der sack ober der shoulder, das fox ben runnen und reachen cin river.
Also at the booth are an assortment of tools used for cooking and eating eggs, including egg rings, cutters, slicers and piecers. Frieling also is showing off a new double-walled French Press coffee line that is made of stainless steel.
Although spray paint is the most common medium, taggers - sometimes referred to as "piecers," "writers," and "hip-hop artists" - also may use magic markers or etching tools to create their images.
My young fabric piecers began their crazy quilts on 9 x 9" (23 x 23 cm) squares of white drawing paper.
In effect, the spread of the new machine transformed the mule spinner from an operative into a minder or supervisor of machinery, serving as the quasi-overseer of his dependent piecers. "Deskilling, in fact, did not result in the loss of control but rather in its consolidation." It also created a pattern of close cooperation between spinners and mill owners, which inhibited technical change in spinning until the 1950s.
Spinners, predominantly male, operated the mules and recruited and supervised junior workers, or "piecers," whose task was to mend broken threads.