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She wore a beaded dress that required many hours of handwork.
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Sofia Celeste, WWD, 10 Oct. 2024
Every shirt in the label’s Gold Line involves 35 hours of detailed handwork, including buttonholes that take 45 minutes of stitching each.
—Martin Lerma, Robb Report, 4 Sep. 2024
The labor-intensive upholstery requires 11 miles of thread, 2.2 million stitches, and 20 hours of handwork.
—Basem Wasef, Robb Report, 6 July 2024
Scale and efficiency mean less handwork and greater speed on a larger number of products.
—Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 2 Apr. 2024
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“Handwork.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/handwork. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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handwork
noun
hand·work
ˈhan-ˌdwərk 
: work done with the hands and not by machine
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