weft
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9.1
- noun
- /wɛft/
- Specialized
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trama
- The artisan expertly maneuvered the loom, ensuring that the weft threads created a smooth and consistent fabric.
- supplementary weft
- warp and weft
- weft patterns
And your cross grain runs across like this and it runs left to right weft.
- And your cross grain runs across like this and it runs left to right weft.
Examples
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Asante weaving evolved from a warp-faced plain-weave tradition; there is no evidence of weft-faced plain-weave textiles.
Academic text (2006) -
Monet chose canvases with a pronounced weave whose weft threads were thicker than the warp.
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To lose that is to lose the very warp and weft of my being.
Fiction book (1995) -
The weft of our seventeen years together was so easily torn apart.
Fiction book (1996) -
The warp and the weft match and I'm going to cut it and create an inlay.
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You know, when you look at black denim, it's much more faded looking because you see a bit of those white weft threads poking through.
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In this textile, ten warp-faced plain-weave strips are alternated with ten weft-faced plain-weave strips.
Academic text (2006) -
On the right sits a woman wearing a cotton titriku, 'thick cloth', a weft-faced plain-weave textile, and a rayon kente.
Academic text (2006) -
The child on the right wears an entire weft-faced plain-weave textile or an alternation of weft- and warp-faced plain-weave blocks in a chessboard pattern.
Academic text (2006) -
In traditional weaving, the weft is interlaced with the warp to produce beautiful textiles.
Synonyms
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1.0
A thin string of fibers used for sewing clothes
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1.8
A long thread of twisted fibers like wool used for knitting
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9.9
Threads that run across fabric to make a pattern
A horizontal thread that goes across other threads to make cloth
Threads that go across other threads to make fabric
Surface Forms
Etymology
Weft comes from an old English word meaning 'woven' and has the same root as the common word weave. So weft is the threads that are 'woven' across the other threads to make cloth.