How To Use Weft In A Sentence
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Merina weavers use a technique known as akotyfahana, produced on a horizontal, fixed-heddle loom with a continuous weft and warp.
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Merina weavers use a technique known as akotyfahana, produced on a horizontal, fixed-heddle loom with a continuous weft and warp.
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Concerntug the v* - trade* the force of my argument goes no farther than this; — that its Juppftfliou, by the ISrihfli government only, other nations continuing the trade as ufua\ % who would of cotirfe felSC on what we funender, would anfwer the purpofes of humanity, cither to the negroes tn Africa, or to thofe already in the Weft Indies; and I have quoted* in fupport of this opinion, the authoiitiesof men (naval commander! and others) who arc intimately acquainted with the trade, though no ways intended in its continuance; and I have not yet met with any evidence or argument* to Kivtttdate their testimony.
The Monthly Review
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The weave of backing fabric, the needle-punching depth and weft count of the paper making felt are chosen as the factors in the orthogonal test. Then the tensility of the paper making felts is tested.
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Swefte as the rodde for-weltrynge [89] levyn-bronde,
The Rowley Poems
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Cotton thread produced on spinning wheels or spinning jennies was not generally strong enough to be used as the warp as well as the weft of cloth, which meant that it had to be interwoven with linen or wool yarn.
'The Industrial Revolutionaries'
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The wraiths and phantoms creep under your carpets and between the warp and weft of fabric, they lurk in wardrobes and lie flat under drawer-liners.
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Other threads gradually interwove into the weft of her designs.
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The pile is formed by knots, which are tied round the warp threads, and held in place by the weft, which is passed back and forth and beaten down securely.
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Woven from copper and lead strips, two new works, constructed as grids, swollen with empty pregnancies, provide a text, censoring itself, in rhythms of weft and warp.
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In a certain sense all of the theoretical explanations of science, the weft that holds the tapestry together, are hypotheses, and to unthread one section risks destroying the entire fabric.
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Women in blue plastic capes weave wool through the fence, using it as warp and weft.
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Linen was used for the warp and cotton for the weft.
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The principles and methods of weft backed weave CAD with and warp grouping are introduced.
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What the murrain is the matter now — Arc yoir not aQiam*d, wife, to dcficoy things wilfully thus — when thou knoweft how chargeable necefiaries arc Begone Jeremy, and mind the fliop.
A Collection of the Most Esteemed Farces and Entertainments, Performed on ...
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Regardless of the weft being woven, the machine adjusts every insertion for minimal air consumption.
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(The warp and weft are at forty-five degrees to the stripes, because the stretcher is rotated.)
James Elkins: How to Look at Mondrian
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At the borders, it is a gossamer weft of sparse threads; nearer the centre, the texture becomes first fine muslin and then satin; lower still, on the narrower part of the opening, it is a network of roughly lozenged meshes.
The Life of the Spider
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Genuine bobbinet tulle is constructed by warp and weft yarns in which the weft yarn is looped diagonally around the vertical warp yarn to form a hexagonal mesh which is regular and clearly defined.
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The yarn color of each vertical line and horizontal line in weave diagram represented should be marked clearly. The weave diagram can be drawn according to the arrangement of colored warp and weft.
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But you should go see it, and not only that, you should look at it closely, the warp and weft of details that make it all hang together in such a unique way.
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The jali normally worked by tearing apart the warp and weft threads of the cloth and by preparing minute button hole stitches.
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Pochampalli sarees in mercerised cotton, silk sarees in semi katan, pure katan and in warf and weft creations look elegant.
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However, it is appreciably less severe when shuttleless looms are used since the size of the weft packages are much larger than those used in the other looms.
Chapter 6
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Nestled close together by the circumstances of history, they symbolised an intimate relationship, the warp and the weft of the fabric of the country.
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Also on display on the cart are accessories once familiar to thousands of East Lancashire weavers - shuttles and pirns on which weft yarn was wound.
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In the reader's imagination these shards of place and time woven into the mimetic weft cohere into a sense of location, layout of objects, orientation of characters within that immediate frame -- at night, on a street corner, where a side-street joins a wide thoroughfare.
Notes on Worldscape
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For instance, how could the silver of the dew-cloud, and golden weft of sunrise, playing through the dapples of a partly wooded glen, do better (in the matter of variety) than frame a pretty moving figure in a pink checked frock, with a skirt of russet murrey, and a bright brown hat?
Mary Anerley
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For all his working life Sam was employed at Passmonds Mill as a weft warehouseman.
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It would be a cunning weave - the warp and the weft so utterly tangled that the thugs set loose on the streets would flail themselves.
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The weft crosses the warp alternately indeed, as in plain unpatterned weaving.
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The result of the trial operation shows that weft crackiness and end breakage decrease greatly.
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In the pink-toned Wire Canyon Cutoff, for example, the matrix of interlaced verticals and horizontals suggests the warp and weft of a tapestry.
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The warp thread is wound round the pegs and two large and two small shuttles used for weaving the weft.
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But this being at beft but a probable cpnjefiure, I ihall iniift no farther upon It. The 14th we paffed by Scouten's Ifland, and Providence Ifland, and found ftill a very ftrong current fetting to the north-weft.
Voyages and TRavels in All Parts of the World
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I claim for employment in connection with a loom for weaving with palm leaf or similar weft a mechanism substantially as set forth which automatically presents in succession the entering ends of single pieces of weft in such position with relation to the cross sectional form of each that each piece will be carried into the shed or web flatwise.
Scientific American, Volume 17, No. 26 December 28, 1867 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.
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Satin weave superficially resembles twill But does not have weft that characterizes twills.
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Grant us the strength to love creation not merely for what it can give us, but because our health and holiness is woven - warp and weft - with its health and holiness.
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At com - mon law, if a ftranger was vouched, the demandant could not counterplead it; but by Weft.
Reports of cases adjudged in the Court of King's bench; with some special cases in the courts of Chancery, Common pleas and Exchequer, alphabetically digest under proper heads;
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When weft yarn is not on a package of suitable form to be placed directly onto the loom shuttle (i.e. when it is on ring rubes, cheeses, cones, or in hank form) it is necessary to rewind it on to pirn tubes of appropriate size.
Chapter 5
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The double ikat entails yarn with more than one colour on the weft or the warp (for parallel threads) or both.
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_ -- The letters and surrounding decoration shown in this example of cut or open work are built up on a square network of warp and weft threads that were left at regular intervals throughout the space, when the unnecessary threads were withdrawn, and then covered with a kind of darning stitch.
Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving
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Aubusson tapestries are flat woven, the patterns carried by the weft rather than the pile.
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He knew who had first sighted the whale, who had raised the weft above their house on Bluff Road, and who had crewed for them.
AMAGANSETT
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•went in the morning, went thro* the warren about Weft Dean; here he dropt, Sir Harry LiddelJ, down to Benderton; from here Lord Harry funk, up to Bender, ton Down to the Hay's bufhes,
Sporting Magazine
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I wanted to convey the flavour, the texture, the weft and woof of this most important relationship.
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In many cases, the muted hues of her warp and weft don't quite match up, lending each work a subtle textural richness.
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A variety of heavy, soft-finished, plain-colored dress silk, woven with a pattern of fine close ribs extending weftwise of the fabric.
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
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Separating out the various frequencies and rhythms we garner and seek to discern the pattern being created before us from the skein of sounds as warp and weft are woven and unwoven.
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As they use much thinner weft than warp strands, more knots are tied on the vertical than the horizontal axis.
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But fair fa 'the weaver that wrought the weft o't --- I swung and bobbit yonder as safe as a gabbart that's moored by a three-ply cable at the Broomielaw.' '
Rob Roy
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Linsey-woolsey is a plain woven fabric with linen or cotton warp and woolen weft used in early America for warmth.
Winters Of Spring « Fairegarden
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Thereby proposes a method to classify fabric thickness by means of the mass unit fabric area or the linear density sum of warp and weft.
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He was sittin 'behind the counter upon the lang three-leggit stool that stood fornent Mr. Weft's desk, and was turning ower the leaves of his ledger, wi' a look which, for auld-fashioned sagaciousness, was wonderfu 'to behold.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 275, September 29, 1827
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By varying the colours of the weft the weaver creates a pattern or figurative image, generally copied from a full-scale design known as the cartoon.
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The material used was through all the phases the same, viz., a twill fabric, of which the warp was of linen, the weft of cotton; the wools varied somewhat in the twist, but were always worsted, the word crewel being a diminutive of clew, "a ball of thread," and probably came into vogue with the importation of wools from Germany, the corresponding word in that language being _Knäuel_.
Jacobean Embroidery Its Forms and Fillings Including Late Tudor
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Beyond this we take with us Willington, which gives name alio to a houfe and gentleman of a long and good delcent •, and Roftherne, the pa - rifh-church (impropriate and belonging to Chrift. church in Oxford, and a vicarage there), ftand - ing over a fpacious and goodly mere, whofe wafte waters help to enlarge the Bollin river; but we ttay to look more wefterly again to that great lordfliip, parilh, and precinft of Lymm, which reacheih down again to the Mcriey fide.
The History of Cheshire: Containing King's Vale-royal Entire
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We are specialized in warp and weft knitted garment fabrics, and lining fabrics, such as polar fleece, ant fleece, short hair velvet, suede, clinquant velvet, mercerized velvet, PU leather and printed fabric.
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The theatre was a merry multigenerational weft of dads, grandfathers and teenagers.
Times, Sunday Times
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The stylist will make tight cornbraids with your own hair and stitch the wefts (extensions come sewn onto a fine cord or base) into it.
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Fear and violence are the warp and weft of life in Kashmir.
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In a pretty good rage he was, no doubt, to think of such a thing; but then his blood turned from hot to cold very quick, I warn 'e, for there was his father sitting on the old seat and working weft through warp as suent and clever as if he was alive!
The Torch and Other Tales
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Using variegated yarn for the weft automatically creates a delightful striped pattern as the student continues weaving.
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In the second method, which is currently by far the most common, the empty weft package (pirn) is ejected and immediately replaced with a new full pirn of weft.
Chapter 6
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Attach and pin the pre-curled hair wefts around the base of the ponytail anchoring to the previously placed bobby pins.
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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
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With the decrease in weft diameter, the insertion force also decreases.
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Wool and linen could be mixed on a loom, with the wool creating the warp threads and the linen the weft.
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On some fabrics it may be possible to pull a weft thread from the fabric leaving a guideline along which to cut.
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But fair fa 'the weaver that wrought the weft o't -- I swung and bobbit yonder as safe as a gabbart* that's moored by a three-ply cable at the Broomielaw.
Rob Roy — Complete
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Being at the north eaft point, we found a ftrong current fetting to the north-weft, fo that though we had fteered to keep under the high ifland, yet we were driven towards the flat one.
Voyages and TRavels in All Parts of the World
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Chinese hand-loom weavers often used strong machine-made yarn for the warp and home-spun for the weft, a practice typical of the early stages of industrialization.
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Such is his passion for the warp and weft, weave and print, and all things textile, that designer Mukesh is a veritable encyclopaedia of the rich and varied textile traditions of India.
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Then the said third weft yarn preferably becomes a weft yarn situated between the successive pile burls, a number of advantages of which were mentioned.
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Thereby proposes a method to classify fabric thickness by means of the mass unit fabric area or the linear density sum of warp and weft.
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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
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The weft of Gwen's life was disapproving of Eileen, defining herself by their differences.
LOST CHILDREN
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Surveys pick out contentious conclusions on divine unity and Trinity and Incarnation and other topoi, abstracted from the original warp and weft, as though the latter were mere packaging.
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Unless the carpet is badly worn, or the pile is carefully separated to allow examination, neither weft nor warp will show from the front.
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The children's tiny fingers are perfect for manipulating the weft items through the warp strings.
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The wraiths and phantoms creep under your carpets and between the warp and weft of fabric, they lurk in wardrobes and lie flat under drawer-liners.
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Pochampalli sarees in mercerised cotton, silk sarees in semi katan, pure katan and in warf and weft creations look elegant.
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Asbestos tape is interwove from asbestos warp and weft yarns, suitable for lagging for boilers and pipe lines, also used as thermal insulating materials.
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- If the quality of the weft yarn is such that there is an appreciable variation in count from pirn to pirn, block barring will be noticed in the cloth.
Chapter 6
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Caught in weft and woof of India's looms are stories of ancient skills, artistry and tradition.
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A simple weaving shed or thread separator is used to raise and lower the warp threads through which the weft is woven.
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After walking Stanley, Barber was replaced by Miller who got Don Weft to hit a grounder up the middle.
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THE DECLINE AND FALL were mafters of the fpacious province of Wola - domir, or Mofcow; and, if they were confined on that fide by the hords of the Eaft, their weftern frontier in thofe early days was en - larged to the BaUic fea and the country of the Pruflians* Their northern reign afcended above the fixtieth degree of latitude, over the Hyper - borean regions, which fancy had peopled with monfters, or clondecl with eternal darknefs.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: By Edward Gibbon ...
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Whereupon the Heelandman bought a Kilmarnock nichtcap, price elevenpence happeny, frae Mr. Weft, and paid him wi 'part of the very note that brocht on the ferly I hae just been relating.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 275, September 29, 1827
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It is common knowledge that when a warp thread drops out, its place is indicated by a thinness or fine opening for the whole length of the missing warp, and this is so because the reed, besides pushing the weft into position, also acts as a warp spacer, that is to say it keeps the warp threads properly apart, every one being properly aligned.
Ancient Egyptian and Greek Looms
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You also want to look at the weft to make sure it's stitched properly.
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Also on display on the cart are accessories once familiar to thousands of East Lancashire weavers - shuttles on which weft yarn was wound.
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The burthen of "a numeroui family was alfo to be alleviated, not only to the loweft poor, but to widows and to indubious couples in a fomewhat better way of employment.
The Monthly Review
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A tapestry is, by definition, a flat-woven cloth that uses discontinuous weft threads to create images.
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In general, you can expect the wefts in the fabric-that is, the crosswise yarns of the weave-to split at the site of the impact.
Slate Magazine
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His skin in this brutal morning light is textured and darkened by a weft of tiny arterial threads, some almost blue.
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The only difference between true tapestry and drawn work, an example of which is here given, is, that the one is done on a warp that has not before been woven upon, and the other on a warp from which the weft threads have been _drawn_.
Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery
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fome earlier kinds againft a fouch alptcl, and others on weft and eaft expofures, to effect a greater variation in the times ripening of the fruit, as well as to obtain it longer in perfection; and thus we may employ all the forts, not only as common dwarf wall trees, planted fifteen or twenty feet diftance; but alfo half ftandards planted between them, trained alfo as wall trees to make
The British fruit-gardener : and art of pruning : comprising, the most approved methods of planting and raising every useful fruit-tree and fruit-bearing-shrub ... The true successful practice of pruning, training, grafting, budding &c. so as to rende
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The Pattushalis and the Devangis weave both warp and weft since centuries and the Pattushalis are the fine khadi weavers.
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And who but she had held together the everyday warp and weft of his tempestuous marriage?
OUT OF THE ASHES
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Warp threads are those which run up and down the length of a piece of textile, weft threads are those that run across the weave at right angles to the warp.
