Weft vs Weave - What's the difference?
weft | weave |
(weaving) The horizontal threads that are interlaced through the warp in a woven fabric.
* 1964 February 6, Kurt Greenwood, New looms that streamline weaving'', '' ,
* 1979 , Eric Broudy, The Book of Looms: A History of the Handloom from Ancient Times to the Present ,
* 1993 , Anni Albers, On Weaving , note on Plate 17,
(weaving) The yarn used for the weft; the fill.
(hairdressing) A hair extension that is glued directly to a person?s natural hair.
* 2009 , Cosmetologists'', ''150 Great Tech Prep Careers , 2nd Edition,
* 2011 , Ryan Rayston, The Quiet Sound of Disappearing , AuthorHouse,
* 2012 , , Milady Standard Cosmetology ,
To form something by passing lengths or strands of material over and under one another.
To spin a cocoon or a web.
To unite by close connection or intermixture.
* Shakespeare
* Byron
To compose creatively and intricately; to fabricate.
A type or way of weaving.
Human or artificial hair worn to alter one's appearance, either to supplement or to cover the natural hair.
To move by turning and twisting.
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To make (a path or way) by winding in and out or from side to side.
* Samuel Taylor Coleridge
As nouns the difference between weft and weave
is that weft is the horizontal threads that are interlaced through the warp in a woven fabric while weave is a type or way of weaving.As a verb weave is
to form something by passing lengths or strands of material over and under one another.weft
English
(wikipedia weft)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)page 356,
- It is all the more remarkable therefore that in one respect — weft' colours — some of the pirnless looms are more versatile than conventional machines. Figure 6 shows the colour mechanism of a conventional loom designed to weave six colours of ' weft (there is never any problem about colour patterning in the warp).
page 81,
- Other techniques for shaping included angling one or both loom bars, adding extra wefts , or adjusting warp tension.
page 48,
- To give greater firmness to the basket-weave plain weave, thin weft' threads can be introduced that will be covered by the heavier pattern ' wefts of the basket weave.
page 135,
- Teaching tools include mannequins, slip-ons, hair wefts , rectangles, and profiles.
page 289,
- Then, she held up the hair as it would look on my head. She positioned it like a pro, holding wefts of human hair so that it looked like it grew from my scalp.
page 556,
- In the bonding' method of attaching hair extensions, hair '''wefts''' or single strands are attached with an adhesive or bonding agent. The adhesive is applied to the ' weft with an applicator gun.
Synonyms
* (threads interlaced through the warp) woof * (yarn used for the threads interlaced through the warp) fill *Etymology 2
Compare waif.weave
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) , Swedish '' .Verb
- This loom weaves yarn into sweaters.
- Spiders weave beautiful but deadly webs.
- This weaves itself, perforce, into my business.
- these words, thus woven into song
- to weave the plot of a story
Noun
(en noun)- That rug has a very tight weave .
Etymology 2
Probably from (etyl) veifa'' ‘move around, wave’, related to Latin ''vibrare .Verb
(weav)- The drunk weaved into another bar.
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- The ambulance weaved its way through the heavy traffic.
- Weave a circle round him thrice.