hand-weaver's

Updated: May 26, 2025

Even the hand-weaver's bound boy, who sits before his loom with his bare feet resting upon the clay-floor, retains a fresher appearance, because he occasionally goes into the fresh air for a time. But the mill child has not a moment free except for meals, and never goes into the fresh air except on its way to them.

Friedrich Engels - The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844: with a Preface written in 1892