Converse of object

• loom: Angus Weavers Ltd Scotland's last hand loom linen weavers.

• employ: In 1850 the first weaving mill was built in the town at Castleton to employ hand weavers.

Adjective modifier

• Huguenot: The Huguenot weavers went to Norfolk, too, which is why there has been some confusion.

• Flemish: The cottages were built in the early sixteen hundreds by Flemish weavers who won permission to build against the outside of the city wall.

• fustian: It was used as the headquarters of the fustian weavers during their strike in 1906-7.

• skilled: Edmund Cartwright's power loom ended the life style of skilled weavers.

• former: A former weaver 's cottage, it is situated round the corner from a good pub.

• French: Contemporary observer of French handloom weavers, late 18th century.

Modifies a noun

• cottage: Most of the cottages are reminiscent of typical weavers cottages built in the 19th century.

• bird: The weaver birds began their incessant noisy chatter, fighting for the best position to build a new nest.

Noun used with modifier

• handloom: A Bolton handloom weaver could earn a princely £ 1 10s a week in the mid 1790s.

• hand-loom: At present there are upwards of fifty hand-loom weavers employed, the webs being chiefly plain silk.

• journeyman: The wages were never high enough to enable the journeyman weaver to tide over periods of unemployment.

• silk: She has a filled tray of pirns at her feet, ready for the silk weaver.

• tapestry: The cartoons were sent to the Brussels workshop of tapestry weaver Pieter van Aelst in early 1517.

• cotton: A third outbreak took place in April among the cotton weavers of Lancashire.

Possessives

• shuttle: He was not content to pass away like a weaver's shuttle.

• cottage: These include the world famous Arlington Row, a row of weavers ' cottages dating from the early 17th century.

• house: Early on, he quite rightly focuses on their amazing Spitalfields weavers ' house.

Preposition: by

• trade: He, too, was a weaver by trade.