| 单词 | weft |
| 例句 | Then she put her mouth to a small hole near one end of the shuttle and sucked out the end of the weft thread. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Was she careless when she replaced the shuttle in the right-hand box or had there been a knot in the weft thread? Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z To my eye, it seemed carefully made: a warp of fine cotton threads, ten or fifteen to the inch, crossed at half-inch intervals by paired weft threads in a basket-like pattern known as “weft-twining.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Before the noon break of the next day, a flying shuttle had grazed the girl’s shoulder, and she had let the shuttle run out of weft, ruining several inches of cloth. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z It was about the shape of a corncob, only a little larger and hollowed out so that it could carry a bobbin or quill of weft thread. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Shuttles holding the weft thread hurtled themselves like beasts of prey through the tall forests of warp threads, and beaters slammed the threads tightly into place. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Everything happened too fast—a bobbin of weft thread lasted hardly five minutes before it had to be replaced—and it was painfully deafening. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z There is Brahman, the world soul, the sustaining frame upon which is woven, warp and weft, the cloth of being, with all its decorative elements of space and time. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z He was warm, earthy, self-mocking, funny and endlessly interested in gossip, weaving a brilliant weft under and over the letters' darker warp of sickness, death and mental anguish. My hero: John Keats by Helen Dunmore 2010-03-27T00:09:00Z There are lengthwise, or warp, yarns and crosswise, or weft, yarns. The Annals of Flannel 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z Reading the book is like holding folds of shot silk to the light, finding green flash in something that looks purple, and appreciating how thoughtfully the warp and weft embrace each other. Mystery Boxes and Budding Loves: New Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z In place of some warp or weft threads, Saban runs what look to be semi-solid stripes of dark paint through the loom. It's not what it seems: Unraveling the secrets of Analia Saban's 'Threadbare' 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z They were dappled, like the hues in nature, thanks to the unique weave of the textured and irregular fabric weft. Chanel caps Paris Fashion Week with swaths of iconic tweeds 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z But this year also sees another institution – one of plausibly more significance to the warp and weft of the British national psyche – also celebrate its jubilee: the UK singles chart. What are the best UK No 1s of the last 60 years? 2012-05-30T15:15:10Z The subtly dazzling abstractions of the Bauhaus doyenne Anni Albers—perhaps the most influential textile artist of the past century—prove that a loom’s warp and weft are the undeniable equals of a paintbrush. What to Do in N.Y.C. This Weekend: Raúl Esparza, “Seared,” and Yvonne Rainer 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z There was no voiceover and little backstory for most individuals – evocative moments were generally preferred to explication – but the warp and weft of different lives were woven together to make something really wonderful. TV review: Murdoch, Cameron & the £8 Billion Deal; Britain in a Day 2012-06-11T21:30:01Z Fluid horizontal lines of gouache were laid over vertical strokes — not unlike the warp and weft in weaving — yielding tactile colored textures. 'Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs' at MoMA follows artist's paper trail 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z So is the laying of a warp and a weft. The Annals of Flannel 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z The pieces highlight how physical labor is measured and embedded in the warp and weft of weaving, which is essentially a grid. For Ellen Lesperance and Helen Mirra, the message is woven into the art 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z A weave is a popular method where hair wefts are sewn onto braided hair and styled in any manner. ‘Bad Hair’ movie explores Black women and hairstyle messages 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z She adapted a traditional weaving technique that added layers to the horizontal threads — the weft — to create pictorial effects. Review | Don’t know the work of Anni Albers? This gifted artist is finally getting her due. 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z Two capture the warp and weft of textiles on looms; one shows dry twigs in packed earth, and another focuses on a shadowy, low-lying form that might be Post-Minimalist sculpture. Three Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z The warp and weft of the thread requires all-or-nothing decisions. What to see in L.A. galleries: street-art ethos, a mesmerizing digital canvas, wild tapestries 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z The painting obeys the right-angled grid of the loom’s warp and weft. The Wandering Creativity of Sophie Taeuber-Arp 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z Across two decades, a move to Wyoming, three children, several books by Fuller and eventual financial calamities, the warp and weft of their life together frays and eventually unravels. ‘Leaving Before the Rains Come’: the latest chapter in a life chaotically lived 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z As an NFL player, Sam would do either well or poorly or, more likely, adequately, fade into the warp and weft of a team, as Jason Collins did on the Brooklyn Nets. Michael Sam’s WWE offer proves he’s more celebrity than athlete 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z That’s one way to create from past and present a new warp and weft. | Pringle of Scotland Wins! 2011-02-23T02:53:03Z See, for example, a bias-cut gown in heavy silk satin with the weft running in two different directions, so some of the fabric looks glossy and other bits matte. Diary of a Cruise Season 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z Among the legion of Lovecraft fans, there will doubtless be some who will painstakingly parse out the warp of facts from the weft of lies in this novel. Paul La Farge’s ‘The Night Ocean’ will suck you into the vortex of H.P. Lovecraft 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z Lutosławski's life was as enmeshed as any 20th century composer's in the terrifying warp and weft of history and politics. A guide to Witold Lutosławski's music 2013-01-15T11:35:36Z Up close, the paint is pressed flat into the warp and weft: laborious, dry and even crude. Gauguin: Maker of Myth 2010-10-02T23:06:00Z Best to remain narcotized and between the Zen warp and weft of high thread-count sheets. A Sleeping Beauty Hopes Hibernation Is the Answer to All Life’s Problems 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z Miller’s novel — one of many in a distinguished career — depicts the warp of a stable 30-year marriage and the patterns created by the weft of issues of trust and fidelity. Review | Sue Miller’s ‘Monogamy’ interrogates what it means to be faithful over the course of a long marriage 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z Now the reader can watch him at the warp and weft—observing, thinking and asking questions. A man for all seasons 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z Flood stories live in the warp and weft of legends and religions and nations — Gilgamesh, Noah, the Greeks and Aztecs, the Norse and Native Americans. How the deluge of 1938 changed Los Angeles — and its river 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z Holding a heddle rod to separate the warp threads, she draws the continuous horizontal weft thread in and out of one or more warp threads. Viking Textiles Show Women Had Tremendous Power 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z In the mid-1970s, she set the loom aside to make labor-intensive textiles with her hands — think all weft, no warp — coiling thread into long, thin, finely wrought ropes that Jacobs used to build basketlike forms. Review: Five pandemic-postponed art shows worth seeing right now 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z If the warp of our differences is no longer held together by the weft of an agreed-upon chronicle of events and a bipartisan encyclopedia of facts, there is no basis for meaningful political discourse. Opinion | No Republican who participates in the war on truth deserves your vote 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z Entanglement, then, may undergird the structure of space itself, forming the warp and weft that give rise to the geometry of the world. What Is Spacetime Really Made Of? 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z Revealed in this warp and weft is the overlap in the behavioral patterns of humans and wolves, as well as the limits of language. Review: As species vanish, a new novel asks: Can 're-wilding' help civilize humans? 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z The Greenlanders' cloth started out identical to the Icelanders' warp-dominant fabric but eventually shifted to contain more threads in its weft than its warp. Viking Textiles Show Women Had Tremendous Power 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z To keep your weave tight, push the weft to the top of the warp threads, so it is flush against the cardboard notches. Got Rags? Weave a Rug 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z If anything, the warp and weft of their everyday lives was a little more threadbare. Opinion | Happiness Won’t Save You 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z The systematic warp and weft of the loom, after all, was the template for the first computer. For these 20 women artists, 'Rapunzel' and 'Dyketactics' are just the beginning 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z The groups Brooks highlights are the weavers, laying down the warp and weft of communities. Opinion | David Brooks wants to weave America’s threads back together 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z By dating the Tatsipataa cloth remains, Hayeur Smith was able to correlate the ratio of weft to warp threads in each sample with published records of climate data. Viking Textiles Show Women Had Tremendous Power 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z Weave your way across the cardboard in the opposite direction and keep pushing the weft flush to the fabric above it to keep the weave tight. Got Rags? Weave a Rug 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z In an age when Instagram and Snapchat and iPhones are part of the warp and weft of life’s daily fabric, potential coders worry less that the job will be isolated, antisocial and distant from reality. The Secret History of Women in Coding 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z He talked about the warp and weft of society coming apart. Britain’s Austerity Has Officially Ended—and Yet It’s Still Going 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z This simple gesture — passing a weft thread through a base of stable warp threads — is the same for every piece of cloth ever woven. How Sardinian Weaving Nearly Became a Lost Art 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z The urban loom weaves food webs from weft and warp that are thrown together by chance, linking species in new and exciting patterns. Darwin comes to town: how cities are creating new species 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z They spend their time weaving a special fabric that preserves time and memory within its warp and weft. Review: Beauty is fleeting in Japanese animated adventure ‘Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms’ 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z Instead of just one warp - long threads stretched through the loom and woven through horizontal threads called the weft - double weaving uses two warps simultaneously to create a layered effect. Exhibit showcases Kay Sekimachi’s woven fiber art 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z He then carefully wrapped one of the colored wefts around that section of hair, weaving the French pins through the weft and anchoring them under the elastic. How to style your hair like Harley Quinn or an emoji 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z The idea of Brexit has become part of the warp and weft of contemporary politics. Brexit: how a fringe idea took hold of the Tory party | Matthew d’Ancona 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z "It's called a missed pick in the weft. The structure of that mistake is actually what created this subtle, or authentic integrated sense for the patch." Why a glowing button might be more important than a touch-sensitive jacket sleeve 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z Somehow, the idea that they were old-fashioned and lacked rigour and impact became accepted, thinning the warp of expertise that bore the weft of disciplines in biology's fabric5. Natural history: Restore our sense of species 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z I’m never going to hear the words “weft” and “warp” the same way. ‘Knit Your Own Kama Sutra’ 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z But she obviously took detailed notes, because it appears in the book with warp and weft, and with direct quotation. Harper Lee: should Marja Mills' memoir have been published? 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z They’re part of the warp and weft of 21st century life. Rethink Your Hiring: Social Media Makes Minds Mushy 2013-09-17T15:30:00Z The seamless thread of British postal history, bright red pillar boxes emblazoned with the royal crest, friendly staff in sub-post offices offering help to wizened pensioners, the warp and weft of … Oh, do give over. Royal Mail privatisation: the coalition goes where Thatcher feared to tread 2013-04-28T18:00:03Z It is now part of the warp and weft of British life. Reasons to be cheerful in 2013 2012-12-31T15:30:49Z "Not weft enough," was Barry's brief comment on the singing; the Welsh, unfamiliar with the air, had not sung. Mushroom Town 2012-04-21T02:00:25.923Z A twilled fabric for dresses, of which the warp is silk, and the weft worsted. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z He hoisted in the main shrouds an English ensign reversed, and tied in a weft or loop. Flags: Some Account of their History and Uses. 2012-03-23T02:00:32.397Z HONEYCOMB, a cloth, so called because of the particular arrangement of the crossing of the warp and weft threads which form cells somewhat similar to those of the real honeycomb. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z Weave A is the ordinary and most used huck or huckaback, while weave B, which is usually woven with double weft, is termed the Devon or medical huck. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z They come and go, these trawlers, in and out, back and forth, up and down, round and round; but they are being wrought into the weft and woof of history, every one of them. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, June 28th, 1916 2012-02-23T03:00:40.467Z "Warp" and "weft" and "twill" have come to be more than mere words to her. The Romance of a Great Store 2012-02-20T03:00:21.577Z By this time another of our ships, the Centurion of 50 guns, had come up, and the Sybille struck her flag—the reversed ensign with its weft, so dishonourably hoisted, remaining in the main shrouds. Flags: Some Account of their History and Uses. 2012-03-23T02:00:32.397Z Weft, weft, n. the threads woven into and crossing the warp—also Woof.—n. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) 2012-01-30T03:00:19.113Z Poplin, pop′lin, n. a kind of cloth consisting of a warp of silk and a weft of worsted, the latter, being thicker than the former, giving a corded appearance. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) 2012-01-30T03:00:13.887Z For this weft use fine, strong linen thread. Self-Instructor in the Art of Hair Work Dressing Hair, Making Curls, Switches, Braids, and Hair Jewelry of Every Description. 2012-01-25T03:00:38.157Z Lathe, lāth, n. a machine for turning and shaping articles of wood, metal, &c.: the movable swing-frame of a loom carrying the reed for separating the warp threads and beating up the weft. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z The real article should be all linen, but a large quantity is made with cotton warp and tow weft, and in some cases they are composed entirely of cotton. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z Despite the web, methought they saw, appalled, The stealthier weft in which all sound was still ... The Star-Treader and other poems 2011-12-27T03:00:09.977Z The warp, or longitudinal threads of the cloth, were of flax, the weft only was of cotton; for we could not twist it hard enough by hand to serve both purposes. Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z Cut the weft according to the number of points desired in the switch. Self-Instructor in the Art of Hair Work Dressing Hair, Making Curls, Switches, Braids, and Hair Jewelry of Every Description. 2012-01-25T03:00:38.157Z The weave shall be two up and two down in the warp and one up and one down in the weft. Library Bookbinding 2011-12-24T03:07:58.950Z The thread thus spun, however, was still only available for weft, as the jenny could not turn out the yarn hard and firm enough for warp. The Romance of Industry and Invention 2011-12-19T03:00:43.870Z Discharging their loads they would return laden with warp, weft, size, and other articles. Bygone Cumberland and Westmorland 2011-11-01T02:00:23.027Z This weft was spun entirely by hand with a distaff and spindle—the same process in which the women of England had been engaged for centuries; and which we see represented in ancient drawings. Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z This is then beaten up by means of a long shuttle like a netting mesh, which first draws the weft into its place, and is then used to beat it up. Alone with the Hairy Ainu or, 3,800 miles on a pack saddle in Yezo and a cruise to the Kurile Islands. 2011-10-30T02:00:10.270Z Duck having a double twisted thread in the weft is much more compact and absorbs dirt and moisture much less rapidly than other kinds. Library Bookbinding 2011-12-24T03:07:58.950Z Thus they sent linen yarn for warp, and raw cotton—which the weaver had first to card and spin on a common distaff—for weft. The Romance of Industry and Invention 2011-12-19T03:00:43.870Z Flannel was no longer recommended for bathing dress; serge and “mohair”—a fabric with a cotton warp and a mohair or alpaca weft—were widely used. Women's Bathing and Swimming Costume in the United States 2011-10-03T02:00:33.640Z In the middle of the last century, according to Mr. Guest, a writer on the cotton-manufacture, very few weavers could procure weft enough to keep themselves constantly employed. Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z Her songs were all of him as she sat at her spinning, and her tender thoughts made warp and weft with the shining threads. The Fairies and the Christmas Child 2011-09-29T02:00:12.583Z Spindle, spindle, the coiling weft shall dwindle; Leap on the fire and burn, for all is done.... King Lear's Wife; The Crier by Night; The Riding to Lithend; Midsummer-Eve; Laodice and Dana? 2011-09-17T02:00:30.620Z His brush indicates the weft of the most delicate tissues; the coloring matter, almost microscopically divided, gives a tone to every stitch in a linen hood or cap, or a knitted stocking. The Standard Galleries - Holland 2011-09-06T02:00:08.153Z Religion is the weft in the beautiful web of such lives as these. In the Land of the Great Snow Bear A Tale of Love and Heroism 2011-08-31T02:01:29.827Z GANT�, a cloth made from cotton or tow warp and jute weft. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z A white weft of towering hair—black, burning eyes. The ghosts of their ancestors 2011-08-08T02:00:20.667Z At each stroke of the shuttle the swinging beam, or batten, beat up the weft to make a close, firm, even weave. In the Days of the Guild 2011-08-03T02:00:12.687Z In the cloth of the ancient East the warp and weft were both of cotton. Inventions in the Century 2011-07-20T02:00:14.643Z One day, when brooding over it in his cottage, idle for want of weft, the accidental overturning of his wife's wheel suggested to him the principle of the spinning-jenny. Triumphs of Invention and Discovery in Art and Science 2011-07-19T02:00:21.280Z In addition to this the sergeant hoisted a small weft at the peak, explaining sulkily that this was an urgent private signal for reinforcements. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z 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. Our Legal Heritage June 2011 (Sixth) Edition 2011-06-03T02:00:23.737Z The shuttle, made of boxwood and shaped like a little boat, held in its hollow the “quill” or bobbin carrying the weft. In the Days of the Guild 2011-08-03T02:00:12.687Z Thus finally were means provided to supply the demand for the weft yarns. Inventions in the Century 2011-07-20T02:00:14.643Z In weaving the word is used of the passing of weft threads over part of the warp without being woven in with it, also of the threads so passed. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z The former are composed of four thick ropes of cow-hide, connected by a weft of cords of the same material, and overlaid with branches, straw, and agair roots. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 2011-04-01T02:00:28.747Z The lengthwise threads were called the "warp"; the shuttle thread was the "woof" or the "weft".In making cloth, it was the warp which, as the loom moved, took the worst beating. Our Legal Heritage June 2011 (Sixth) Edition 2011-06-03T02:00:23.737Z 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. In the Days of the Guild 2011-08-03T02:00:12.687Z In England the warp was linen and the weft was cotton. Inventions in the Century 2011-07-20T02:00:14.643Z If it is wished to accentuate the imminence of the danger it is done by making the flag into a “weft,” that is, by knotting it in the middle. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" 2011-03-20T02:00:30.697Z Unions or fabrics consisting of a cotton warp with a worsted weft are in general treated like worsteds. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z But how, in the weft, do the colors duly return, so as to make the stripes, and therefore the checks, recur at equal distances? The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 2011-02-23T03:00:33.760Z On the backward trip, from left to right, the shuttle reverses its course and leaves the weft in front of the odd warp threads. Handbook of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts 2011-02-15T03:00:17.853Z The warp was made by the cloth and linen manufacturers, and the weft yarns furnished by the woman spinsters throughout the country. Inventions in the Century 2011-07-20T02:00:14.643Z It is usually made with a much coarser weft than warp, and its flannel-like appearance is obtained by the raising or scratching up of this weft, and by various finishing processes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" 2011-03-20T02:00:30.697Z Shearing may be effected either transversely, in which case the fixed blade is parallel to the warp, or longitudinally with the fixed blade parallel to the weft. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z The cloth is lighter than canvas or sailcloth, and differs from these in that it is almost invariably single in both warp and weft. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z Thus, all the warp threads are covered with the weft. Handbook of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts 2011-02-15T03:00:17.853Z Psychological meltdown is now part of the warp and weft of its wretched fibres and it will clearly take someone other than Capello to fix it. World Cup 2010: 'Plucky Slovenia' to send England home? 2010-06-18T21:41:00Z The thread spun by the jenny could not, however, be used except as weft, being destitute of the firmness or hardness required in the longitudinal threads or warp. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" The thread spun by Hargreaves' jenny could not be used except as weft, being destitute of the firmness or hardness required in the longitudinal threads or warp. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli Good bombazine is made with a silk warp and a worsted weft. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" Wool is generally used for the weft, linen or hemp for the warp. Handbook of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts 2011-02-15T03:00:17.853Z Like a cactus flames the sun; And the mighty weaver, Even, Tenuous colored, there in heaven, His rich weft's begun.... One Day & Another A Lyrical Eclogue Miss Cohn raised her smooth cheek from the rough weft of Mr. Ginsburg's sleeve. Just Around the Corner Romance en casserole Cloth of gold and cloth of gold and silks—that is, warf of silk and weft of gold—were much prized, and were called by various names from the Persian, as ‘ciclatoun,’ ‘siglaton.’ English Costume A weft of smoke went drifting across the taper, and that too passed. Where the Pavement Ends In the night I saw her weaving By the misty moonbeam cold, All the weft her shuttle cleaving With a sacred thread of gold. Mopsa the Fairy It is made in several qualities, from line warp and weft to two warp and weft, and is used chiefly for aprons, pocketing, soldiers’ gaiters, linings and overalls. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" She drifted for the merest second, floating off on the silken weft of a half-conscious dream. Just Around the Corner Romance en casserole Movable bars, for pressing the successive weft threads together. g. What We Saw in Egypt "We have our little trials—" he said, and smoothed them rather fretfully, and as speedily as might be, from his pink, bald brow and laid them with the well-ordered weft of ungrayed hair atop. Where the Pavement Ends The floats of the warp and the weft are mostly in three; indeed the patterns are made from a base weave which is composed entirely of floats of this number. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" A large variety obtains with and without fancy borders, while of late years cotton has been introduced as warp, as well as mixed and jute yarns for weft. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" Considerations of growth determine to a great extent the hardness or softness, and strength or weakness, of the fibre, and thus, indirectly, whether the cotton is suitable for warp or weft. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 5 "Cosway" to "Coucy" And once there came a dame in weft All pearl besprent, as when the sky A springtide day hath wept and left A stormy eve one flash of gems. Blooms of the Berry Fate had failed in her weaving during the previous evening, but on the present occasion she combined warp and weft without any error. Cynthia's Chauffeur The effect is, in every case, obtained by what are technically called warp and weft float weaves. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" The wavy appearance of Canton crape results from the peculiar manner in which the weft is prepared, the yarn from two bobbins being twisted together in the reverse way. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" Now, however, Mexicans are often made with lighter wefts, though the name is usually applied to the better class of cloths of the particular character. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 5 "Cosway" to "Coucy" At noon amid the fervid leaves The quarreling insects gossip hot, And thro' the grass the spider weaves A weft with silver shot. Blooms of the Berry The stem of an exogenous plant has been compared to a piece of linen, of which the weft is composed of cellular tissue, and the warp of fibrous and vascular tissue—crossing each other. The Church of England Magazine - Volume 10, No. 263, January 9, 1841 Let thy weft Present one woof and warp, Mazzini! The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume IV The crape formerly made at Norwich was made with a silk warp and worsted weft, and is said to have afterwards degenerated into bombazine. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" The word is sometimes particularly applied to cloths with a comparatively heavy weft, the distinction being made between the even “Mexican make” and the “pin-head” or “medium-make.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 5 "Cosway" to "Coucy" “These gentlemen,” said he, “remind me of some spinsters in my country who spin their thread so fine that it is neither fit for weft nor woof.” The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 3 (of 25) The weft of the same material has a diameter of 2 mm. of single ply, very loosely Z-twist cord. A Burial Cave in Baja California The Palmer Collection, 1887 The thread spun by the jenny was, however, suitable only for weft, and the roving process still required to be performed by hand. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 CRETONNE, originally a strong, white fabric with a hempen warp and linen weft. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" Raising-cloths are of various kinds and may be merely mediums with a heavy weft, or “condensor” weft made from waste yarns. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 5 "Cosway" to "Coucy" Previous to his time, the heavy shuttles containing the wefts were sent across the looms by two persons. The Story of the Cotton Plant This weft is about the equivalent of commercial slub with no tensile strength. A Burial Cave in Baja California The Palmer Collection, 1887 In such white wars supreme She wins, and weft and flower Leave their revenge's right, and seem Yellowed with envy's hour. Enamels and Cameos and other Poems It is sometimes made with a weft of cotton waste. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" 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. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 5 "Cosway" to "Coucy" In many cases, also, yarn is specially required to be spun upon the bare spindle as on a mule, as for instance when used as weft and put into the shuttle of a loom. The Story of the Cotton Plant Two whipping cords that are like the weft secure the end warp loops. A Burial Cave in Baja California The Palmer Collection, 1887 Ah! the folds are lips of fire Sweeping round your lovely form In a folly of desire, With a weft of kisses warm! Enamels and Cameos and other Poems My father was James Wright, at one time a hand-loom weaver, latterly a weft manager at Messrs W. Lund & Sons, North Beck Mills, Keighley, a position which he held for somewhere about half a century. Adventures and Recollections The weft surface is the face or wearing surface of the cloth. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 5 "Cosway" to "Coucy" If for weft, the cops are forthwith taken to the loom, ready for the shuttle. The Story of the Cotton Plant One side of the cloth has a whipped edge holding irregularly broken weft ends. A Burial Cave in Baja California The Palmer Collection, 1887 To make cloth, the warp and weft must be interlaced with each other in a suitable manner. The Fabric of Civilization A Short Survey of the Cotton Industry in the United States After leaving the day school, I was sent to Lund’s mill, where my father was manager over the weft department. Adventures and Recollections 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. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 5 "Cosway" to "Coucy" The demand for weft grew more and more. The Story of the Cotton Plant Within a bower the womb I left, ’Midst dames and maids who stood to aid; They wrapped me first in silken weft, And next in scarlet red array’d. The Verner Raven; The Count of Vendel's Daughter and Other Ballads Picking, or placing a thread of the weft between the warp threads so raised and lowered by means of the shuttle. The Fabric of Civilization A Short Survey of the Cotton Industry in the United States To be sure, you miss the sheeted snows and the dreamy weft of leafless twigs against the hard, blue sky. Imaginary Interviews In the interim, however, the habit grew of receiving not only linen warp but cotton weft from the merchant or middleman. The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production It was so in this case, for here was a cry for some mechanical means to be discovered for satisfying the ever-increasing demand for cotton weft. The Story of the Cotton Plant This stitch is rarely worked in lines across the forms, but it has been effectively used in that way, following always the lines of the warp and weft of the stuff. Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery Beating-up, or pushing, each thread of the weft into its position close against the thread which has preceded it by means of the reed. The Fabric of Civilization A Short Survey of the Cotton Industry in the United States The eldest sister began the weft, The youngest finished what she left. Marsk Stig's Daughters and other Songs and Ballads And the triumph of him that begot, And the travail of her that bore, Behold, they are evermore As warp and weft in our lot. Modern British Poetry This she did, and Crompton very soon became familiar with it and produced upon it sufficient weft for their own use. The Story of the Cotton Plant 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. The Ghost The crosswise threads are called the weft or filling. The Fabric of Civilization A Short Survey of the Cotton Industry in the United States The veil is thin and only manifested in the young stage of the plant as a loose weft of threads. Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. The loom which held the weft was fastened at one end to the trunk of a tree, the other being wound round the waist of the weaver. Adventures of a Young Naturalist It was not long, however, before the mule asserted its superiority over the water frame for fine muslin yarns, and for weft yarns. The Story of the Cotton Plant Just above the breast beam there are 8 or 9 threads of weft but they are too faint to be included. Ancient Egyptian and Greek Looms Shedding, or the raising and lowering of the alternate threads of the warp, so that the weft may pass under and over them. The Fabric of Civilization A Short Survey of the Cotton Industry in the United States "Now, boys, let the weft rest on the last end, finish your work." The Manxman A Novel - 1895 And, beauteous to see, Fine woven weft and web, and the tall screen O’errun with painted bloom, crystal, with gleam Of Lilith’s face—thou madest these. Lilith The Legend of the First Woman Upon this twig is loosely wound from end to end the weft thread. Aboriginal American Weaving The weaver on the left holds a spool in her hand, evidently a piece of stick with the weft thread wound round it, which she is pushing through with her fingers. Ancient Egyptian and Greek Looms "Khes" is a better article with a double warp and weft. The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir A high grade, pure variety of flannel woven with a silk warp and a fine woolen weft. 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 Great wefts of scarlet and of blue, thick strewn With pearls, or cleft with discs of jacinth stone; And drifts of silky woof and samite white, And warps of Orient hues. Lilith The Legend of the First Woman As observed in the illustration the lines of weft are not driven home but are set some distance apart, the space between varying on different garments. Aboriginal American Weaving The fact of the weft not being at right angles to the warp, if one may conclude by the fabrics, does not, I think, imply that such weaving is of inferior quality. Ancient Egyptian and Greek Looms Arkwright's water frame was better for making the warp and long threads of cloth; and Hargreaves's jenny turned out better weft, or the kind of thread that went from side to side. Carl and the Cotton Gin They are also used in combination with shoddy and cotton to produce weft or filling yarns for a lower quality of goods. 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 Faint wefts creep out along the blue and die. Alcyone The weft moves across the warps as in twilled cloth, over two, under two, with an advance of one warp at each line of weft. Aboriginal American Weaving The amount the warp and weft are out of the right angle is stated to be about 20°. Ancient Egyptian and Greek Looms Both quills for the weft and spools for the warp may be wound from the swift by a quilling-wheel, small wheels of various shapes, some being like a flax-wheel, but more simple in construction. Home Life in Colonial Days When cheapened by the use of a cotton weft in place of wool the fabric is known as cotton bengaline, although the cotton is in the filling only. 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 As a result the adjustment of warp and weft is more or less disturbed. Researches on Cellulose 1895-1900 In the loom of time, though the woof be divinely foreordained, yet man supplies the weft, and the figures of the endless web are shaped and colored by our own wisdom or folly. The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays The weft is composed of single yarns and are all in the grey. Ancient Egyptian and Greek Looms As the heavy batten swings on its axle, the reed forces with a sharp blow every newly placed thread of the weft into its proper place close to the previously woven part of the texture. Home Life in Colonial Days The name is also applied to a variety of dress goods woven with a wild silk warp and a fine worsted weft. 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 The throwing of the weft or filling by means of a shuttle. Textiles and Clothing There are many goods in the market finely dressed so as to hide that the warp is cotton and only the weft silk. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. The weft is all of doubled yarns; both warp and weft are very regular in diameter. Ancient Egyptian and Greek Looms The shuttle must not be thrown too sharply else it will rebound and make a slack thread in the weft. Home Life in Colonial Days The plainest and most common fabrics of piqué are those in which the pattern consists of straight cords extending across the cloth in the direction of the weft. 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 Haircloth—A cloth woven of horse hair, from which it takes its name, for weft with cotton or linen warp; used for facings, linings, furniture cover, etc. Textiles and Clothing Heroic literature is only one thread in the weft of medieval literature. Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature Like it, a few of the warp yarns are doubled, both the red and the grey; while the weft is all of single yarns and in the grey.” Ancient Egyptian and Greek Looms The shuttles and spools are made by machinery; and more important still, both warp and weft is purchased ready-spun from mills. Home Life in Colonial Days Plain, lustrous silk, yarn dyed, with warp of one color, and weft of another. 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 The "harnesses" move part of the warp now up, now down, and the shuttle carries the weft from side to side to be driven home by the reeds to the woven cloth. Textiles and Clothing In drawn work the question is how to treat the remaining warp threads after the weft has been withdrawn. Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving In the course of a few hours he did the warping, beaming and weaving, making the pick with his fingers and using a ball of weft thread instead of a spool or shuttle. Ancient Egyptian and Greek Looms But this was for weft yarns, and did not make strong warps. Home Life in Colonial Days The warp and weft are woven evenly and produce a beautiful natural luster. 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 The beating up of the weft left in the shed by the shuttle to the cloth already formed. Textiles and Clothing 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. Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving The weaver made the “shed” and pushed the weft through with his fingers. Ancient Egyptian and Greek Looms In England the weaver often had to spend one day out of the six hunting around the country for yarn for weft. Home Life in Colonial Days 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 Very little difficulty will be met with in dyeing such light fabrics as Italians, cashmeres, serges and similar thin textiles lightly woven from cotton warp and woollen weft. The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics Moreover the weft may be composed of one strand or of several strands together. Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving The Greeks evidently used a spool in weaving, that is a piece of stick round which was wound the thread that became the weft, as is shown in the hand of Penelope, Fig. Ancient Egyptian and Greek Looms The warp was strong white cotton or tow thread, the weft of blue and white stripes made by weaving alternately a shuttleful of indigo-dyed homespun yarn and one of white wool or tow. Home Life in Colonial Days Silk warp, wool weft, fine twilled cloth; originally made in black only for mourning. 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 All swiftly weave the measure deft Across the woof in loving weft, And the Money Musk is done! Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform Here the woof has been taken once to and fro; a movement called a weft or a course, one way only, goes by the name of a half pass or a shoot. Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving In the use of either form of loom the Egyptian weavers beat the weft downwards or towards themselves and not upwards or away from themselves. Ancient Egyptian and Greek Looms But it was a garment of far-flung amplitude, woven on the shadowy loom of night and the sea, and from such mysterious warp and weft is often produced the sable robe of tragedy and death. The Stowaway Girl The short wool is combed for thick counts for weft and hosiery, and is also used for shawls and cloths where felting is not an essential feature. 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 Even as in the Edda, these German fays weave and twist threads or ropes, and attach them to distant parts, thus fixing the weft of Fate. The Younger Edda Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda The weft is almost always taken in horizontal lines to and fro. Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving In the beginning they made no selvedges so that for every pick a separate length of weft thread was used. Ancient Egyptian and Greek Looms The daisy by his ploughshare cleft, The lips of women loved and left, The griefs and joys that weave the weft Of human time, With craftsman's cunning, keen and deft, He carved in rhyme. A Channel Passage and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol VI Mungoes of the best quality are used in the low fancy tweed trade, in both warp and weft, but chiefly in union and backed fabrics. 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 She’s taught me much: for I’ve had time and to spare, Brooding among these God-forsaken fells, To turn life inside-out in my own mind; And study every thread of it, warp and weft. Krindlesyke 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. Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving The adoption of the selvedge was another improvement and until it was introduced the weft would no doubt have been put through with the fingers, later on a spool being used. Ancient Egyptian and Greek Looms The vertical threads, as shown in the figure, are the warp threads; the coarser thread which is inserted transversely between these is the yarn or weft. Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections Obtained from the Indians of New Mexico in 1880 Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 429-466 A variety of white flannel finished with considerable nap, composed of cotton warp and woolen weft. 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 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 Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir For packing down a long line, much more play of weft is required than for a short one. Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving The weavers were women and the weft was beaten upwards or away from the weaver. Ancient Egyptian and Greek Looms The three rods in the center of the blanket are lease rods, which are introduced among the threads of the warp to separate them and thus facilitate the insertion of the weft thread. Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections Obtained from the Indians of New Mexico in 1880 Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 429-466 In plain weaving it is possible to produce stripes by the use of bands of colored warp, and checks where both warp and weft are parti-colored. 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 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 Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir The thoroughness of this packing down of the weft is for several reasons very important. Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving But I am unable to follow Wilkinson in this, for I can find no indication in his illustration which shows how the beating-in of the weft is accomplished. Ancient Egyptian and Greek Looms The bar held in hands of the weaver serves as a batten for driving or beating the weft thread into the angle formed by the crossed warp threads. Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections Obtained from the Indians of New Mexico in 1880 Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 429-466 Death brings the shears or ever life wind up the weft. Erechtheus A Tragedy (New Edition) 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. The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir This can be done whilst the weaving is in progress by a method of interlocking the two wefts as they meet, or else by stitching up at the back when the work is finished. Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving The specimen shown me under the microscope indicated clearly that the warp and weft were not at right angles and that the interstices were not square but diamond shaped. Ancient Egyptian and Greek Looms 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 its weft unwoven and overworn Shrinks, as might love from scorn. Songs of the Springtides and Birthday Ode Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol. III The weft threads are forced up against the fabric by means of the comber board and are beaten in with a baton. The Wild Tribes of Davao District, Mindanao The R. F. Cummings Philippine Expedition The best she can do is to produce warp and weft stripes. The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir Examination of the drawing will probably be sufficient explanation; however, interlocking is effected thus: Commencing at the base, run a weft of the darker wool to and fro, leaving it slack at the turning point. Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving Of the weft, nearly half are double yarns. Ancient Egyptian and Greek Looms Free as the bird In the weft of the grasses! Songs from Vagabondia The first is the common diagonal or twilled weave, in which each element of the weft passes over two or more of the warp elements. The Wild Tribes of Davao District, Mindanao The R. F. Cummings Philippine Expedition How the bird-voice cleaves Through the weft of leaves With a leap and a thrill Like the flash of a weaver's shuttle, swift and sudden and sure! More Songs From Vagabondia The joined weft will last as long as any other part of the weaving. Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving The texture is a plain weave, has a selvedge edge, the warp yarns are doubled, while the weft is single yarn. Ancient Egyptian and Greek Looms Then the weft is inserted and the batten and reed-fork used as before. Navajo weavers Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-'82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 371-392. We can perchance but catch a straying weft And trace the hinted texture here or there, Of that stupendous loom weaving our fates. My Beautiful Lady. Nelly Dale Since power-looms have been used, the rows run regularly; each thread of the weft is exactly parallel with the preceding one, and cutting is no longer an art. The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 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. Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving About 25% of both warp and weft yarns are doubled, and all are very even in diameter. Ancient Egyptian and Greek Looms When this is all ready the insertion of the weft begins. Navajo weavers Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-'82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 371-392. In the lone hours of the night he spun upon the loom of his fancy a brilliant weft of swift desire—heavy, perfumed, Oriental—interwoven with bits of gruesome tenderness. The House of the Vampire Art drops his eyes from Linda's and looks at the crazy weft and woof of the faded old Oriental rug. Eastern Standard Tribe A comb is necessary for pressing down the weft whilst the work is in progress. Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving Both warp and weft yarns are single, and even in diameter. Ancient Egyptian and Greek Looms The Indians ravel it and use the weft. Navajo weavers Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-'82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 371-392. The moan of her travail That groans for the light Till dayspring unravel The weft of the night, At the sound of the strings of the music of morning, falls dumb with delight. Studies in Song The instance of America occurred during this second stage in the weft and woof of tribulation which was at the root of our growth. The Romance of a Pro-Consul Being The Personal Life And Memoirs Of The Right Hon. Sir George Grey, K.C.B. There are very few materials required for tapestry weaving; they consist of, string for warp, wools, silks, and maybe gold and silver thread for the weft. Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving Both warp and weft yarns are single and very irregular in diameter. Ancient Egyptian and Greek Looms The lateral edges of the blanket are similarly protected by stout cords applied to the weft. Navajo weavers Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-'82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 371-392. 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. Fighting Instructions, 1530-1816 Publications Of The Navy Records Society Vol. XXIX. Do you know that I am lady of the manor; and that all wefts and strays belong to me? The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 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. Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving About half of the warp is composed of doubled yarns of irregular diameter; the weft is of doubled yarns and more regular in diameter. Ancient Egyptian and Greek Looms 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. Stories of Mystery The grass, of a burnt-green, almost gray color, looked like worn velvet here and there, showing the weft and spotted with earth. His Excellency the Minister To effect this object, a cotton warp and, preferably, a cotton weft also are employed, or a linen, worsted, or other weft may be used. Scientific American Supplement, No. 794, March 21, 1891 The weft of her misfortune only inspired another barbarous deed: Pandion killed both sisters and his son Italus. Sister Teresa About half the warp yarns are doubled, while all the weft are composed of doubled yarns, both being fairly even in diameter, and not sized. Ancient Egyptian and Greek Looms Great cry, and little wool—is now become The plague and proverb of the weaver's loom; No wool to work on, neither weft nor warp; Their pockets empty, and their stomachs sharp. The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1 If we now treat a few threads of the weft in the same manner, a similar change of color takes place. Scientific American Supplement, No. 530, February 27, 1886 The result is that each weft thread, a, passes under six warp threads, b, and over two warp threads, in the manner illustrated by the accompanying diagram. Scientific American Supplement, No. 794, March 21, 1891 Evelyn did not answer, for she was thinking of the strange threads one finds in the weft of human life. Sister Teresa The lengthwise threads were called the "warp"; the shuttle thread was the "woof" or the "weft". Our Legal Heritage, 5th Ed. The weaving beam is then placed in the power loom, by which machine, the shuttle being provided with cops with weft, the cloth is woven.” Rides on Railways In the night I saw her weaving By the misty moonbeam cold, All the weft her shuttle cleaving With a sacred thread of gold. Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. More than four colors, however, can be produced upon each side by multiplying the number of colored wefts and warps employed. Scientific American Supplement, No. 794, March 21, 1891 No, her untutored thoughts she did not give To such a theme; but in their warp and weft She wove a prayer: then in the midnight deep Faintly and slow she fell away to sleep. Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. Where the warp and weft are of uniform size, as in mats, it is impossible to distinguish the one from the other, but in many cases the weft is the smaller. The Tinguian Social, Religious, and Economic Life of a Philippine Tribe They climbed the wooden steps to their hotel like glorified children who had been caught in a silver weft of enchantment. Every Soul Hath Its Song Up the fielded slopes at morn, Where light wefts of shadow pass, Films upon the bending corn, I shall sweep the purple grass. Lyrics of Earth The result, in this case, is still the same, viz., that each weft thread passes under six warp ends and over two warp ends. Scientific American Supplement, No. 794, March 21, 1891 All this waste from various sources, e.g. thread waste, rove waste, card waste, ropes, dust-shaker waste, etc., is ultimately utilized to produce sliver for heavy sacking weft. The Jute Industry: from Seed to Finished Cloth This is turned sideways to enlarge the shed, and a shuttle bearing the weft thread is shot through. The Tinguian Social, Religious, and Economic Life of a Philippine Tribe And again: "An unbiased consideration of its general aspects forces us to conclude that religion, everywhere present as a weft running through the warp of human history, expresses some eternal fact." The Church and Modern Life Thus we see the threefold weft, Arcadian, courtly, and mythological, weaving the fantastic web of the earliest of the romantic pastorals. Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England Both the yarns for warp and weft may be either dull or polished, according to the appearance and finish of cloth desired. Scientific American Supplement, No. 794, March 21, 1891 The two series of threads which are interlaced receive the technical terms of warp and weft--in poetical language, warp and woof. The Jute Industry: from Seed to Finished Cloth The first and most simple is known as laga, the technic of which is the passing of each element of the weft under one and over one of the warp elements. The Tinguian Social, Religious, and Economic Life of a Philippine Tribe And so, like some weft of opalescent mist, the sweet mirage melted in the noonday. The Silent Isle He could not re-knit himself with the weft of life; the thread that had made him part of it had been snapped, and he was left struggling in space. A Mere Accident If you asked what use they made of the spools of woollen thread obtained by this process, they would answer: 'We use it as the weft of the linsey-woolsey with which we clothe our negroes.' Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America The threads which form the length of the cloth constitute the warp, while the transverse threads are the weft. The Jute Industry: from Seed to Finished Cloth The greater part of the baskets are in the diagonal or twilled weave, in which each element of the weft passes over two or more warp elements. The Tinguian Social, Religious, and Economic Life of a Philippine Tribe The place had, however, long been the seat of a domestic manufacture—the fabric called “Blackburn greys,” consisting of linen weft and cotton warp, being chiefly made in that town and its neighbourhood. Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance Why art thou so in fear of me, when before my lord thou weft so brave? Four Arthurian Romances For the slightest force Would loose the weft of things wherein no part Were of imperishable stock. On the Nature of Things The warp threads have ultimately to be wound or "beamed" on to a large roller, termed a weaver's beam, while the weft yarn has to be prepared in suitable shape for the shuttle. The Jute Industry: from Seed to Finished Cloth Colored vines are sometimes woven Page 424in, but the common method is to employ blackened bamboo, both in warp and weft. The Tinguian Social, Religious, and Economic Life of a Philippine Tribe Men's heads were the weights, but men's entrails were the warp and weft, a sword was the shuttle, and the reels were arrows. The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor "Then thou oughtest to know me well, if thou weft ever with me at the court of my father, the King." Four Arthurian Romances "These gentlemen," said he, "remind me of some spinsters in my country who spin their thread so fine that it is neither fit for weft nor woof." Familiar Studies of Men and Books H.--An ordinary "HESSIAN" cloth made from comparatively fine single warp and single weft, and the threads interlaced in the simplest order, termed "plain weave." The Jute Industry: from Seed to Finished Cloth Here the warp is crossed, and the weft passes through it in regular order so as to produce hexagonal openings. The Tinguian Social, Religious, and Economic Life of a Philippine Tribe A Minuet of Mozart's Across the dimly lighted room The violin drew wefts of sound, Airily they wove and wound And glimmered gold against the gloom. Helen of Troy and Other Poems There, hide in the house like a coward, And hope not hereafter to scare me With the scorn of thy brethren the Skidings,— I'll set them a weft for their weaving! The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald Now I meet the shining rain From a cloud with sunny weft; Now against the wind I strain, Sudden burst from mountain cleft. The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 The weft is thick, and the weave is also plain. The Jute Industry: from Seed to Finished Cloth This looks very much as if half the weft had stuck to the bobbins again. The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume I And the triumph of him that begot, And the travail of her that bore, Behold they are evermore As warp and weft in our lot. The Centaur On my heart The thought flashed sudden, burning through the weft Of life, and with too much I sank bereft. The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 1 Ah, Estelle! your bonnie birdie, with his wild whirr, darting back and forth like a weaver's shuttle weaving fine wefts, has got into my head; not "bee-bonneted," but bird-bonneted, I go. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860 T.--A "TARPAULING" made from yarns similar to those in bagging, although there is a much wider range in the thickness of the weft. The Jute Industry: from Seed to Finished Cloth Here it's broad, there it's narrow; here it's drawn in by the wefts goodness knows how tight, and there it's torn out again by the temples. The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume I Also the mechanism for effecting the elevation and release of the weft, substantially as described. Scientific American, Volume 17, No. 26 December 28, 1867 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. In wide, complicated dance, they wove a huge, warpless tapestry with the weft of an ever vanishing aureate shine. A Rough Shaking Her light on the grass-blades wove them into a carpet with its weft of faint moonbeams. There & Back S.--A striped "SACKING" made from comparatively fine warp yarns, usually double as in bagging, but occasionally single, with medium or thick weft interwoven in 3-leaf or 4-leaf twill order. The Jute Industry: from Seed to Finished Cloth And hardly seventy threads weft to the inch. The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume I Also the plate, d, with its rectangular perforations and the gate or slide for clamping a single piece of weft projecting through the plate, substantially as shown and described. Scientific American, Volume 17, No. 26 December 28, 1867 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. Enough, that while the piled embroider'd shoddy gaud and fraud spreads to the superficial eye, the hidden warp and weft are genuine, and will wear forever. Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy The effect is that, together with the tension, although slight, and the drying, the weft partly shrinks and partly curls up, the latter, however, being scarcely observable to the naked eye. Scientific American Supplement, No. 401, September 8, 1883 C.--One type of "CARPET" cloth made exclusively from two-ply or two-fold coloured warp yarns, and thick black single weft yarns. The Jute Industry: from Seed to Finished Cloth At the base of the cone, especially in spinning weft, or filling, the diameter of the cop is five or six times that of the quill at the tip. Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 Also a mechanism substantially as set forth for "knocking off" the weft raising mechanism when a piece of weft is presented. Scientific American, Volume 17, No. 26 December 28, 1867 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. Parts of them, indeed, may be regarded as a warp of prose amid the weft of poetry, such as Shakespeare furnishes the precedent for in drama. Poems By Walt Whitman Again they are like an unfinished cloth: 'these bodies, having no weft, even now are not come together, truly a shameful story, a tale to bring shame on the gods.' Certain Noble Plays of Japan From the manuscripts of Ernest Fenollosa The figuring warp is composed of dyed and printed yarns mixed to form an indefinite pattern, and works in conjunction with a ground warp and weft. The Jute Industry: from Seed to Finished Cloth Half the hand mules were spinning 36's weft, at 4700 revolutions, and the other half 36's twist at 5000 revolutions per minute. A Catechism of the Steam Engine The sounds of streams are weft with breezes, chant Their arias with trembling leaves,—the haunt Of gods! Babylonian and Assyrian Literature The threads that were spun are gathered, the weft crosses the warp, the pattern is systematic. Poems By Walt Whitman All his opinions are like wefts and strays that are apt to straggle from their owners and belong to the lord of the manor where they are taken up. Character Writings of the 17th Century During the operation of weaving, the shuttle, in which is placed a cop of weft, similar to that on the cop winding machine in Fig. The Jute Industry: from Seed to Finished Cloth It is as strong as a fortress; has walls thick enough for a castle; is severely plain but full of weft; has no sympathy with elaboration, and is a standing protest against masonic gingerbread. Our Churches and Chapels Their Parsons, Priests, & Congregations Being a Critical and Historical Account of Every Place of Worship in Preston From cobweb weft and woof is spun The tapestry of Life and Fate! Old Spookses' Pass, Malcolm's Katie, and other poems "The fragment of a life, however typical, is not the sample of an even web" said George Eliot, and who knew the nature of the warp and weft of our human fabric better than she! The Doctor's Daughter The sermon, now—what a mingled weft Of good and ill! Christmas Eve To make the weft, the weaver threw a shuttle between them, from one hand to the other. Our Legal Heritage : 600-1776 King Aethelbert - King George III Oh ragged-jawed, jagged-toothed Dragon of Time, What will you do with the weft of my rhyme, You who have pawed every jewel in slime— You! Perpetual Light : a memorial Your boatmen lie on their oars, and there have already been made two wefts from the warder's turret to intimate that those in the castle are impatient for your return. The Abbot He could not re-knit himself with the weft of life; the thread that had made him part of it had been snapped. Celibates They began to sing, and the weft and woof of their songs were grief for all those things and a cherished, secret promise that a limit had been set to their nation's agony. The Eye of Zeitoon It edged a broad bow-shaped expanse of sand, snowy, powdery, hummocky, netted with wefts of black seaweed that had dried to a rattling stiffness. Angel Island Is there change in the secret skies, In the sacred places that see The divine beginning of things, The weft of the web of the world? Songs Before Sunrise Her gold it is that forms the weft of this Fair tapestry of armies marshalled here! The Dynasts It is in the ingenious interweaving of these threads—the weft of reality with the warp of simulation—that the chief dramatic value of Leoncavallo's opera lies. A Second Book of Operas The lord of the soil has all wefts and strays here, has he not? Every Man out of His Humour Such indeed is the economy of nature that secret relations and astonishing concordances exist throughout the whole vast weft of things. Fabre, Poet of Science On the third day she came again, clad in stuff weft with gold wire, and wearing raiment and ornaments finer than before. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 The undyed weft is then woven across the web in the usual way. The Pagan Tribes of Borneo And I know when she has left, She is stronger far than I, And more subtly spun her weft, Than my human wizardry. The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 1 The vessel accordingly lay to, and presently showed a weft in her ensign, which was hastily answered by signals from on shore. Redgauntlet Since when hast thou trembled at the approach of death, amid whose varying forms, thou weft wont calmly to dwell, as with the other shapes of this familiar earth. Egmont And the triumph of him that begot, And the travail of her that bore, Behold they are evermore As warp and weft in our lot. Bulchevy's Book of English Verse The violins were weaving a weft of silver, The horns were weaving a lustrous brede of gold, And time was caught in a glistening pattern, Time, too elusive to hold . The House of Dust; a symphony |
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