weft

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His prowess and his reputation were magnificent — a magnificent guy — just part of the warp and weft of all good music that came through there.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2025

“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

Holding a heddle rod to separate the warp threads, she draws the continuous horizontal weft thread in and out of one or more warp threads.

From Scientific American • Sep. 15, 2022

They were dappled, like the hues in nature, thanks to the unique weave of the textured and irregular fabric weft.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 8, 2022

There is Brahman, the world soul, the sustaining frame upon which is woven, warp and weft, the cloth of being, with all its decorative elements of space and time.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel