Sometimes we go to the park, but when it storms we are glad to stay in the house and work at sewing or Sloyd.
"Gerda in Sweden"
Etta Blaisdell McDonald
Manual training, shop-work, Sloyd, and gardening have come into use for the school ages; the teaching of trades has been admitted to some public school systems; and, in general, the use of the hands and eyes in productive labor has been recognized as having good educational effects.
"Four American Leaders"
Charles William Eliot
The Sloyd methods of working at benches are particularly important for workmen if they are not to develop these curious painful conditions which are due to habitual wrong use of muscles, and not to any diathesis.
"Psychotherapy"
James J. Walsh