Fabric or textiles that are made by weaving threads together by hand rather than with a machine.
Compound of 'hand' (Old English 'hand') and 'woven' (past participle of 'weave' from Old English 'wefan'), becoming common in the 20th century to market artisanal goods.
Handwoven became a luxury marketing term only after industrial looms made machine-woven fabric dominant—essentially, before 1800, almost everything was handwoven, but calling it that would have been as silly as saying 'hand-harvested apples' before tractors existed.
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