| Silver wire was used by embroiderers, lace-makers and weavers for embellishing high-quality fabrics. |
| The largest group were Huguenots, many of them silk weavers, silversmiths, and furniture makers. |
| Different streets were allotted for different professions such as potters, weavers, dyers, jewellers, and bakers. |
| Merina weavers use a technique known as akotyfahana, produced on a horizontal, fixed-heddle loom with a continuous weft and warp. |
| He can trace his ancestors in this area back to 1650, a long line of shepherds, coopers, weavers and the occasional collier. |
| This was not the case in parts of Ulster, where a substantial proportion of linen weavers were not independent producers but wage-workers. |
