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Weft vs Weaving - What's the difference?

weft | weaving |

As nouns the difference between weft and weaving

is that weft is (weaving) the horizontal threads that are interlaced through the warp in a woven fabric or weft can be (obsolete) something cast away; a waif while weaving is (uncountable) the process of making woven material on a loom.

As a verb weaving is

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weft

English

(wikipedia weft)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • (weaving) The horizontal threads that are interlaced through the warp in a woven fabric.
  • * 1964 February 6, Kurt Greenwood, New looms that streamline weaving'', '' , 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).
  • * 1979 , Eric Broudy, The Book of Looms: A History of the Handloom from Ancient Times to the Present , page 81,
    • Other techniques for shaping included angling one or both loom bars, adding extra wefts , or adjusting warp tension.
  • * 1993 , Anni Albers, On Weaving , note on Plate 17, 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.
  • (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, page 135,
    • Teaching tools include mannequins, slip-ons, hair wefts , rectangles, and profiles.
  • * 2011 , Ryan Rayston, The Quiet Sound of Disappearing , AuthorHouse, 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.
  • * 2012 , , Milady Standard Cosmetology , 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.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) Something cast away; a waif.
  • * Spenser
    • a forlorn weft
    (Webster 1913)

    weaving

    English

    (wikipedia weaving)

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The process of making woven material on a loom.
  • (countable) A piece of such material.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=September 28, author=Holland Cotter, title=Lenore Tawney, an Innovator in Weaving, Dies at 100, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=In the 1960s, in addition to small-scale weavings influenced by American Indian, Peruvian and African art, she began producing enigmatic assemblage boxes and collages, including postcard collages, which she sent to friends.}}
  • (countable) An unsteady motion back and forth.
  • * 1980 , David Madsen, Black Plume
    • Through some ill-understood quirk of balance, his drunken weavings did nothing to upset the tray — it seemed to remain calmly horizontal.

    Verb

    (head)
    • The motorcycle is weaving in and out of traffic