weft
Americannoun
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Origin of weft
before 900; Middle English, Old English; akin to weave
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In this work, however, the researchers demonstrated that weft knitting, the same industrial method commonly used to produce hats and gloves, can create complex curved structures using yarn alone.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
“These women’s stories emerged from history. Using the metaphor of warp and weft, these women are living in history. They are weaving their lives through history. It’s influencing them. They are influencing it.”
From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2025
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.
From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2024
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.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 15, 2022
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.
From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson
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