weft

[weft]

noun

1. Textiles.,  filling.

2. a woven fabric or garment.

weft

/ wɛft /

noun

1. Also called: filling.  woof. the yarn woven across the width of the fabric through the lengthwise warp yarn

Other Word Forms

• underweft noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of weft¹

before 900; Middle English, Old English; akin to weave

Word History and Origins

Origin of weft¹

Old English, related to Old Norse veptr; see _weave

Example Sentences

Cody was weaned on weaving, tapping weft yarns for her nine-foot-tall textiles with the same wood comb she started out with at age 5.

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One woman styled another’s hair, patiently working wefts of hair extensions into neat braids.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Related Words

• cord 
• cotton 
• filament 
• silk 
• strand 
• string 
• wire 
• wool 
• yarn