手て組ぐみ

noun

manual typesetting; hand composition

Printing term for setting type by hand, as opposed to machine composition.

• 活かっ版ぱん印いん刷さつでは、熟じゅく練れんした職しょく人にんが手て組ぐみで文も字じを並ならべた。

  In letterpress printing, skilled craftsmen arranged the type by hand.

noun, noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no'

assembling by hand; braiding by hand

General term for putting something together manually, including braiding or assembling parts without machinery.

• この籠かごはすべて手て組ぐみで作つくられている。

  This basket is made entirely by hand.

• 手て組ぐみの紐ひもは機き械かい編あみより温あたたかみがある。

  Hand-braided cords have more warmth than machine-braided ones.