| Although meticulously handpainted, the glossy images have a machine-made look, as if they were, say, transfer decals or press-on tattoos. |
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| Today, even though they have access to machine-made nylon or cotton string, the people of Kiribati prefer handmade cord. |
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| After all, it's just a piece of metal suspended by a machine-made ribbon with no jewels or special pecuniary value. |
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| Today, if you need a strip of molding for a cornice, you select from the supply of machine-made examples at the lumberyard. |
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| The shawl is made from fine black cotton machine-made net that is hand embroidered with delicate tamboured floral sprays. |
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| The company is exploring the prospect of making machine-made pots to meet the demand. |
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| Railways brought in cheap machine-made articles that sapped the trade and labour of the handicraftsman. |
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| Chinese hand-loom weavers often used strong machine-made yarn for the warp and home-spun for the weft, a practice typical of the early stages of industrialization. |
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| Furthermore, rods are machine-made and optically homogeneous, in contrast to the spheres, which are hand-made and may possess unaccountable individual differences. |
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| This type of postiche is called a 'combination wig' because it mixes hand-made work with machine-made work. |
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| And all reflect Bontecou's odd penchant for mixing feminine with masculine and hybridizing attributes of the natural with those of the machine-made, and the machine itself. |
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