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sloyd, n.|slɔɪd| Also slöijd, slöjd, slojd, sloid. [ad. Sw. slöjd, corresponding to ON. slœ́gð, whence sleight n.1] A system of manual instruction or training in elementary woodwork, etc., originally developed and taught in Sweden. The verb sloyd (slöjd, etc.), and the ns. sloyder, sloydist, have also been occasionally employed. α1884[see fad n.2 1]. 1885Pract. Teacher Oct. 357/2 Slöjd. A Short Description of a System of Handiwork taught in many Elementary Schools in Sweden. 1888Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 107/2 In Sweden ‘slojd’, or elementary woodwork,..is taught with considerable success to children of both sexes. β1886Pall Mall G. 21 Sept. 14/1 ‘Sloyd’..aims at establishing handicraft as one of the subjects generally taught in schools. 1893Athenæum 8 Apr. 437/3 Sloyd..is by no means the same as carpentry; tools, objects, methods, are different in the two pursuits. attrib.1885Pract. Teacher Oct. 358/2 [We] spent a week in Stockholm, visiting nearly every Slöjd school there. 1886Pall Mall G. 21 Sept. 14/1 The kindergarten system of Fröbel may be regarded as the precursor of the Sloyd movement. |