weft

• It was the ultimately hopeful expression of the warp and the weft, of the principle of late emergent properties. —  THE YEARS OF RICE AND SALT - Kim Stanley Robinson
• The cord is produced by using a heavy soft-spun woolen weft which is so closely covered by the silk warp threads that it is not exposed when examined from the wrong side. —  Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades
• I at last inferred, and a weaver confirmed my inference, that it was a corruption of temple, an attachment made of flat, narrow strips of wood as long as the web is wide, with hooks or pins at the end to catch into the selvage of the cloth, and keep the cloth stretched firmly an even width while the reed beats the weft-thread into place There were many other simple yet effective attachments to the loom. —  Home Life in Colonial Days
• The weft or rilling is narrow strips of all the clean and vari-colored rags that accumulate in a household The preparing of this filling requires considerable judgment. —  Home Life in Colonial Days
• My friend sacrificed a great number of excellent wool-mattresses; this wool was spun into yarn and used for weft, and formed a most grateful and dignified addition to the varied, grotesque, and interesting makeshifts of the wardrobe of the Southern Confederacy Though weaving on hand-looms in our Northern and Middle states is practically extinct, save as to the weaving of rag carpets (and that only in few communities), in the South all is different. —  Home Life in Colonial Days

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