Handwork

So you feel "Look at how wonderful the eye is, surely it proclaims God's handwork" is reasonable, but "Look at how shoddy the panda's thumb is, surely it denies God's handwork" is objectionable. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It would seem to me that handwork is handwork, whether spent truing an action and lapping a barrel or carving and finishing a stock. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I think the peacefulness of the handwork is just what I need right now ... ❋ Regina Doman (2007)

The second kind of labour which every owner of a farm had to do on the monks 'land was called handwork, that is to say, he had to help repair buildings, or cut down trees, or gather fruit, or make ale, or carry loads -- anything, in fact, which wanted doing and which the steward told him to do. ❋ Eileen Edna Power (1914)

In ancient Greece, where a single word, techne, described every kind of handwork from painting to weaving to blacksmithing, a goddess, Athena, ran the show, except for the smithy where the gods ordered up their armor (and perhaps the shoes for Pegasus and Apollo's horses of the sun): that dark, dirty realm belonged to lame Hephaistos. ❋ Rowland, Ingrid D. (2008)

About one-half the amount paid for labor goes to the men who run the machine tools, and the other half is paid to workmen who do the other work, such as handwork, assembling, transporting, etc. ❋ James Hartness (N/A)

_Stem Stitch_ is used in frame embroidery, and does not differ in any way from that described at page 20, under "handwork," except that the needle is of course worked through the material with both hands, as is the case in all frame work. ❋ L. Higgin (1852)

Blurring the Line: art of thread, Bjarnadottir adopts the "handwork" of her native Iceland as she "unravels its traditions within the context of contemporary art." ❋ Unknown (2008)

Everywhere there were people –- men working in the ankle-deep mud of the irrigated fields; a group of women sitting in a circle on a huge cloth, doing some kind of handwork I couldn’t quite see; children chasing each other down the long narrow mounds that divided the rectangular plots, or shooing cows from one meager pasture to another with long switches. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Many engineers looked down on soft suits, partly because they relied on seemingly fragile handwork like sewing rather than the usual methods of military-industrial manufacturing. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Such structures are incredibly stiff and lightweight but also awfully expensive, requiring days of skilled handwork to build. ❋ Dan Neil (2011)

Among the teachers the school kept were a music instructor and a "handwork" educator, who teaches knitting, cooking, woodworking and other hands-on skills. ❋ Barbara Martinez (2011)

Do you ever think you should do handwork in church? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Lovely handwork, good footwork, good judgment and he hardly missed one. ❋ Unknown (2012)

You also have to mill and tap the receiver, which requires extensive handwork. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I'm a person who prefers handwork in art as opposed to anti-craft but can understand both fully. ❋ Noah Becker (2010)

The image is late Victorian, made worse by commercial interests that to this day insist all handwork is badly done, a competitive attitude that goes back to 1589 and the first machine knitting. ❋ Jean (2009)

In one, feathers, created by a house in Paris that does handwork, drapes over his wrists to subtly invoke a condor or an eagle. ❋ Unknown (2010)

[Ayye] My handwork [was good] [after the] sexywalk part ❋ Handwork (2018)