handloom
hand loohm
- n a loom powered by hand
- He wears handloom shirts and jeans (though he admits to owning "suits and things" for special occasions), and drives a modest Toyota Qualis because "I don't need anything else.
- Rubinstein was born in 1887, in the shabby industrial town of Lodz, Poland, where his father owned a small handloom factory.
- Example: he would permit no expansion of textile mills, instead would double the output of handloom cloth.