selvedged

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I am bit blown away to be honest. for those who want to know I pieced all the selvege to a backing fabric , laying each selvedged edge over the previous raw edge Hope that makes sense The dress does have a lot of body but it is still pretty fluid.

Utterly Great - A Dress A Day 2008
I’m sure they meant “selvedged” although salvaged is more appropriate.

Regretsy – How You Say 2010
In the childhood of weaving we should expect different methods, and it may be, seeing that we have no selvedged cloth until very long after this time, that they experimented with a diagonal weft to see if it would not reduce the tendency to fray out at the sides. "

Ancient Egyptian and Greek Looms 1890