bead-workers

Updated: May 23, 2025

The men carried on the few trades that were current, all consumption being virtually limited to the city itself. Among the women there were bead-workers and embroiderers; and the manufacture of religious articles, such as medals and chaplets, and of certain popular jewellery had always occupied a fair number of hands.

Émile Zola - The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete: Lourdes, Rome and Paris

The men carried on the few trades that were current, all consumption being virtually limited to the city itself. Among the women there were bead-workers and embroiderers; and the manufacture of religious articles, such as medals and chaplets, and of certain popular jewellery had always occupied a fair number of hands.

Émile Zola - The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 3

But it has fine old twisted mulberry trees, and a long walk beside the water, where lizards dart among the stones on the land side and on the other crabs may be seen creeping. On the way to this garden I stopped to watch a family of gossiping bead-workers.

E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas - A Wanderer in Venice

The men carried on the few trades that were current, all consumption being virtually limited to the city itself. Among the women there were bead-workers and embroiderers; and the manufacture of religious articles, such as medals and chaplets, and of certain popular jewellery had always occupied a fair number of hands.

Émile Zola - The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Complete