weft
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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
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
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.
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
