weft

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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 very warp and weft of language are clichés, worn metaphors, secondhand phrases copied so often that their lack of originality, of idiosyncrasy, is what allows them to have communicative power.

From Slate • Jun. 24, 2023

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.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2023

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

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.

From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson