This page gathers the 63 dictionary entries belonging to the domain “Weaving”, as labelled by Wiktionary. Each word leads to its full entry: definitions, etymology, pronunciation, examples.
- back beam noun Synonym of warp beam.
- bang off verb Of an automated loom: to have the shuttle fail to follow its intended path and bang against other parts of the loom.
- batten noun The movable bar of a loom, which strikes home or closes the threads of a woof.
- beam verb To put (something) on a beam.
- beater noun A weaving tool designed to push the weft yarn securely into place. It contains the comb-like insert reed and is sometimes a part of the…
- card noun A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom.
- chain noun The warp threads of a web.
- comb noun A toothed wooden pick used to push the weft thread tightly against the previous pass of thread to create a tight weave.
- cram noun A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed.
- dent noun A slot or a wire in a reed.
- dobby noun A device in some looms that allows the weaving of small geometric patterns.
- drawboy noun A boy who operates the harness cords of a drawloom.
- end noun A single warp thread.
- fill noun The weft yarn.
- float noun A weft thread that passes over two or more warp threads (or less commonly, warp over weft).
- fly noun A shuttle driven through the shed by a blow or jerk.
- griff noun An arrangement of parallel bars for lifting the hooked wires which raise the warp threads in a loom for weaving figured goods.
- harness noun The part of a loom comprising the heddles, with their means of support and motion, by which the threads of the warp are alternately raised…
- heald noun Heddle.
- heck noun An apparatus for separating the threads of warps into sets, as they are wound upon the reel from the bobbins, in a warping machine.
- lathe noun The movable swing frame of a loom, carrying the reed for separating the warp threads and beating up the weft.
- lock off verb To turn in the warp thread or strands of a piece of cloth when finished to stop strands unravelling.
- overshot noun A pattern resulting from a plainweave ground fabric and floats of supplemental weft, associated with coverlets in the colonial United…
- pecker noun A picker, a shuttle-driver: the device which moves backwards and forwards in the shuttle-box to drive the shuttle through the warp.
- pick noun The blow that drives the shuttle, used in calculating the speed of a loom (in picks per minute); hence, in describing the fineness of a…
- picker noun The piece in a loom that strikes the end of the shuttle and impels it through the warp.
- piecen verb To join broken threads or ends in spinning.
- race noun A groove on a sewing machine or a loom along which the shuttle moves.
- reed noun A comb-like part of a beater for beating the weft when weaving.
- rice noun A bobbin or spool.
- rover noun One who forms cotton, wool, or other fibres into rovings (“long, narrow bundles of fibres”), specifically using a roving frame in a mill.
- scob noun A flaw in which the weft misses a few warp threads.
- selvage noun The edge of a woven fabric, where the weft (side-to-side) threads run around the warp (top to bottom) threads, creating a finished edge.
- sett verb To determine the ends per inch of the warp.
- shaft noun A component of a loom which holds the heddles and is raised by treadles to create the shed.
- shed noun An opening between upper and lower warp yarns through which the weft is woven.
- shoot noun A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.
- shuttle noun A tool used to carry the woof back and forth between the warp threads on a loom.
- shuttle driver noun A device for moving the shuttle between the shuttle boxes and through the warp on a loom.
- simple noun A drawloom.
- sleave verb To separate, as threads; to divide, as a collection of threads.
- sley verb To separate or part warp threads and arrange them in a reed.
- squally adj Not equally good throughout; not uniform; uneven; faulty.
- stripe noun A pattern produced by arranging the warp threads in sets of alternating colours, or in sets presenting some other contrast of appearance.
- sword noun One of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended.
- tackler noun A person who repairs weaving looms.
- taper noun One who operates a tape machine.
- template noun Synonym of temple.
- temple noun A contrivance used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely.
- thread noun A piece of yarn, especially said of warps and wefts in a woven fabric.
- tie up noun The connection of a loom's treadles to its shafts, used in combination with the threading and treadling to create a pattern.
- token noun In a loom, a colored signal to show the weaver which shuttle to use.
- tram noun A silk thread formed of two or more threads twisted together, used especially for the weft, or cross threads, of the best quality of…
- treadle verb To press a specific treadle or sequence of treadles on the loom.
- turn in verb To reverse the ends of threads and insert them back into the piece being woven so they do not protrude and eventually unravel.
- twill noun A pattern, characterised by diagonal ridges, created by the regular interlacing of threads of the warp and weft during weaving.
- twitter noun A knot or other defect in a thread or yarn which hinders spinning or weaving; a twit.
- untrammed adj Not trammed.
- vibrator noun Any of various vibrating devices, such as one for slackening the warp as a shed opens.
- warp noun The threads that run lengthwise in a woven fabric; crossed by the woof or weft.
- weft noun The horizontal threads that are interlaced through the warp in a woven fabric.
- woof noun The set of yarns carried by the shuttle of a loom which are placed crosswise at right angles to and interlaced with the warp; the weft.
- worming noun The tendency of certain yarn or thread to bunch up after being woven.