(1) The weaver will feed the cuckoo's chick together with her own two chicks.(2) The sociable weaver is endemic to southern Africa, with its core distribution being in the Northern Cape and Namibia.(3) In the early 1800s, the French weaver Joseph Jacquard invented a loom in which a series of punched cards controlled the patterns of cloth and carpet produced.(4) The library has recently acquired a weaver 's pattern book printed in the seventeenth century described by the textile historian Patricia Hilts as the earliest known example of its genre.(5) Women are expert weavers and dyers and make their own cloth.(6) Well they're in the trees in our street… All the usual ones - sunbirds, weavers , orioles and so on.(7) On the whole, it is an earnest attempt to preserve traditional crafts from extinction and to help skilled craftsmen and weavers , who are living in penury.(8) Those who make their living as blacksmiths, weavers , potters, or musicians are looked upon with some disfavor and suspicion.(9) Almost everyone employed the carpenter's skill in some way, from fishermen and weavers to shoe-makers.(10) Different streets were allotted for different professions such as potters, weavers , dyers, jewellers, and bakers.(11) Calling all Bolton ex-mill workers, carders, spinners, winders and weavers … someone wants to hear your story.(12) He can trace his ancestors in this area back to 1650, a long line of shepherds, coopers, weavers and the occasional collier.(13) The largest group were Huguenots, many of them silk weavers , silversmiths, and furniture makers.(14) It is also beautiful and tranquil and I have seen kingfishers there as well as hundreds of weavers .(15) He lists the names of dyers, weavers , and embroiderers where possible.(16) All the animals had gathered there - giraffes, hippos, antelope, buffalo, warthogs, zebras, aardvarks, hyenas, mongooses, storks and weaver birds .
