Combs were used to push down the weft on a hand loom, the warp being kept taut by means of weights.
Arras tapestries are line drawings formed by the combination of horizontal ribs with vertical weft threads and hatchings.
Gothic tapestries are composed of woolen weft on linen, or woolen on hemp warp, and are often enriched with gold and silver thread.
It is said "the weft of his verse is torn by translation, it cannot be grasped, it is wafted through shadows.
The weft thread is wound upon a bobbin made out of a slender piece of rattan which has two slits at each end, through which the weft thread passes.
The movement of the batten in driving home the weft produces a sound that, owing to the resonance of the bamboo yarn beam may be heard for several hundred meters.
The best she can do is to produce warp and weft stripes.
By pulling the comb back to the finished part of the fabric, the warp threads are reversed and the last weft thread is securely held in place.
The heavy, hardwood, flat, polished batten is then worked by the hand, driving the weft thread into juxtaposition with the part of the fabric finished already.
Afterbloom Gay was her garden as some gorgeous fabric Weft on an Orient loom, Star-set upon the sward quaint, old-time blossoms Wrought broidery of bloom.
The fingers of the phantom still shone dimly on his head, and its white locks drooped above him, like a weft of light.
Near this door stood a misty figure, whose sad, spectral eyes floated on vacancy, and whose long, shadowy white hair, lifted like an airy weft in the streaming wind.
It was no uncommon thing, we learn, for a weaver to walk three or four miles in a morning, and call on five or six spinners, before he could collect weft to serve him for the rest of the day.
The weavers were often brought to a stand-still for want of weft to go on with, and had to spend their mornings going about in search of it, sometimes without getting as much as kept them busy for the rest of the day.
Particles of sand were brought up in the jaws of the young spider and pushed into the weft of the tube.
It turns on its back to do this, and strikes the insect from behind, afterwards pulling its prey through the weft and into the tube by main force.
This left both hands free to throw and catch the shuttle attached to the weft thread from side to side through the warp.
Arkwright argued that the statute should not include printed or painted cloth made in Great Britain in its ancient tradition of fustians with an all linen warp (for strength) and a cotton weft (for fineness).
A kind of baize of which the ward is cotton and the weft woolen.
A kind of woven fabric for waistcoats, having the weft of wool and the warp of silk or cotton.
The weft surface is the face or wearing surface of the cloth.
Weft the weaver had to get spun by his family or outsiders.
Raising-cloths are of various kinds and may be merely mediums with a heavy weft, or "condensor" weft made from waste yarns.
The essence of the raising-cloth is a weft that will provide plenty of nap and yet have sufficient fibre to maintain the strength of the web.
The cloth is woven "one end up and two ends down," and as there are more picks of weft per inch than ends of warp the diagonal lines pass from selvage to selvage at an angle of less than 45 degrees.
In 1760 John Kay's son Robert added the drop-box, by the use of which many different kinds of weft could be worked into the same fabric without difficulty.
The weaver as a rule received his weft material in the form of cotton-wool and was required to arrange himself for its cleaning and spinning.
One side of the cloth has a whipped edge holding irregularly broken weft ends.
The weft of the same material has a diameter of 2 mm.
This weft is about the equivalent of commercial slub with no tensile strength.
Two whipping cords that are like the weft secure the end warp loops.
It is man in his blind self-seeking who separates woof from weft in the living garment of God, and loses the more as he neglects the outward and visible signs of a world-wide grace.
This improvement put weaving ahead of spinning, and the weavers were continually calling on the spindlers for more weft yarns.
The warp was made by the cloth and linen manufacturers, and the weftyarns furnished by the woman spinsters throughout the country.
For the making of ribbons and other kind of narrow ware, the needle power loom has been invented, in which the fine weft thread is carried through the web by a needle instead of a shuttle.
Thus finally were means provided to supply the demand for the weft yarns.
In the cloth of the ancient East the warp and weft were both of cotton.
In England the warp was linen and the weft was cotton.
Evelyn did not answer, for she was thinking of the strange threads one finds in the weft of human life.
The weft of her misfortune only inspired another barbarous deed: Pandion killed both sisters and his son Italus.
At each stroke of the shuttle the swinging beam, or batten, beat up the weft to make a close, firm, even weave.
Here is a leaf like the heart of a rose, And here the shift in the pattern shows How another weft in the tireless loom Set the gold of the skies a-bloom.
On my heart The thought flashed sudden, burning through the weft Of life, and with too much I sank bereft.
And the song lightened, as the wind at morn Flashes, and even with lightning of the wind Night's thick-spun web is thinned And all itsweft unwoven and overworn Shrinks, as might love from scorn.
To be sure, you miss the sheeted snows and the dreamy weft of leafless twigs against the hard, blue sky.
A strong white fabric with warp of hemp and weft of flax.
Tufted cord, of silk or worsted, for the trimming of ladies' dresses, for embroidery and fringes, and for the weft of Chenille rugs.
They have been made plain and twilled, of single warp and weft, of double warp, and sometimes with double weft also, with thicker yarn.
It will be seen that the center is ornamented with peculiar raised figures; these are made by inserting a slender stick into the warp, so as to hold up certain of the threads while the weft is passed twice or oftener underneath them.
Now, when the weaver was working in this place, twenty-nine different threads of weft might have been seen hanging from the face of the web at one time.
Then the weft is inserted and the batten and reed-fork used as before.
Every time the weft is turned at the edge these two strings are twisted together and the weft is passed through the twist; thus one thread or strand of this border is always on the outside.
When the lower shed has received its thread of weft the weaver opens the upper shed.
As it is constantly twisted in one direction, it is evident that, after a while, a counter-twist must form which would render the passage of the weft between the cords difficult, if the cords could not be untwisted again.
When this is all ready the insertion of the weft begins.
Now, the weft of his consciousness at least was hot with a new disturbing tint.
But there was many a little memory of Marianne in the earlier days that he would have to oust from the future unless his every hour was to be cross-textured with a weft of self-reproach.
But the slipping of the weft is prevented by a curious process, performed by tying the threads of the warp together, so that each is secured to the thread at each side of it.
Duck having a double twisted thread in the weft is much more compact and absorbs dirt and moisture much less rapidly than other kinds.
The average value for the warp and weft in the finished fabric must show an increase over the average value for the warp and weft in the gray cloth of at least 10 per cent of the strength of the gray cloth.
Sweeping round your lovely form In a folly of desire, With a weft of kisses warm!
In such white wars supreme She wins, and weft and flower Leave their revenge's right, and seem Yellowed with envy's hour.
If any of the ships in the fleet are in distress, and make the signal, which is a weft with the jack or ensign, the next ship to them is strictly required to relieve them.
The thoroughness of this packing down of the weftis for several reasons very important.
The weft threads were probably omitted for the space of one and a half inches when the fabric was being made in order that some ornamentation might be put in, in this way.
Moreover the weft may be composed of one strand or of several strands together.
The weft must be left a little slack along the line for this purpose, and some experience is required in order to leave just the right slackness.
Special care must be taken that the weft is turned neatly round at the margins, because if it is at all loose there the work has a ragged, untidy appearance.
The cut or open work, as it is sometimes called, is that in which both warp and weft are in places cut away, and the open spaces thus formed are partly refilled with a device of one kind or another.
The joined weft will last as long as any other part of the weaving.
This is because with each change of colour in the weft that occurs in the direction of the warp, there comes an inevitable separation in the woven material, which, oft repeated, would materially impair the strength of the fabric.
A comb is necessary for pressing down theweft whilst the work is in progress.
For packing down a long line, much more play of weft is required than for a short one.
All varieties of weaving are done by one little-varied method, that of the weft passing to and fro in and out of the warp, and thus binding the whole into a fabric or web.
Some of the weft threads have perished, leaving the warp exposed to sight; this enables the student to understand better the manner in which it was carried out.
