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Raveling vs Selvage - What's the difference?

raveling | selvage |

As nouns the difference between raveling and selvage

is that raveling is while selvage is (weaving) 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.

As a verb raveling

is .

raveling

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)

    • selvage

    English

    Noun

  • (weaving) 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.
  • Any edge of fabric finished so as to prevent raveling.
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1803 , year_published=2008 , edition= , editor= , author=Earsmus Darwin , title=The Temple of Nature , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=Her stately limbs the gather'd folds surround, / And spread their golden selvage on the ground. }}
  • (printing) The excess area of any printed or perforated sheet, such as the border on a sheet of postage stamps or the wide margins of an engraving.
  • (geology) A distinct border of a mass of igneous rock. It is usually fine-grained or glassy due to rapid cooling.
  • (geology) Clay-like material found along and around a geological fault.
  • The edge plate of a lock, through which the bolt passes.
    • (Knight)