hand-workedadj.

1818 H. J. Todd Johnson's Dict. Eng. Lang. Handworked, made with hands; formed by workmanship.

1845 Art-union July 220/3 It would be impossible to distinguish effectively on wood the peculiarities of hand-worked lace, as distinguished from machine-made lace.

1880 W. Hoey Monogr. Trade N. India iii. 88 Chikan is hand-worked flowered muslin.

1959 N. Mailer Advts. for Myself (1961) 436 Hand-worked nesting tables.

1987 N. Blei Neighborhood v. 38 The upstairs was a dustfree museum of unused furniture, clean white curtains, handworked doilies.

2003 New Yorker 9 June 22/3 Numinous landscapes by a Los Angeles painter whose surfaces appear airbrushed but are in fact laboriously hand-worked.

1842 Bradshaw's Jrnl. 9 July 149/2 It [sc. a piece of silver] is then cut in pieces, and rolled out by smaller hand-worked rollers to ten times its former size.

1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 19 Aug. 8/2 Hand-worked bilge pumps.

1938 M. Allingham Fashion in Shrouds xv. 248 They came up in a small handworked passenger lift to a front door.

1967 M. M. Edwards Growth Brit. Cotton Trade i. 5 Although a hand-worked machine..the mule was relatively more expensive than the jenny.

2009 L. Davies in K. I. Baxter & R. J. Hand J. Conrad & Performing Arts viii. 144 For technical reasons, it would have been difficult to set all three strands of music on a hand-worked organ.