Meaning of weft | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Alternative spelling of waif.
   alt-of, alternative, obsolete
2. The horizontal threads that are interlaced through the warp in a woven fabric.
3. The yarn used for the weft; the fill.
4. (usually with the) the set of threads lying lengthwise in a loom during weaving (the other being the weft (weft) ). skering سَداة النَّسيج: خُويطُه الأساسيَّه الطولِيَّه утайка tramar / torcer / empenar osnova die Kettenfäden (pl.) trend στημόνι lõimelõngad تار loimilangat chaîneשתי ताना tkanje láncfonal (szemben a vetülékfonallal) lungsin langþræðir 縦糸 (날)실 apmatai meti (aušanā) lungsin scheringrenning osnowa urdidura ur­zeală основа osnova osnova pri tkanju osnova tkanja varp กลุ่มเส้นด้ายต...
   usually with
5. A hair extension that is glued directly to a person′s natural hair.
6. The horizontal threads interlaced through the warp in a woven fabric; woof.
7. Woven fabric.
8. (Textiles) the yarn woven across the width of the fabric through the lengthwise warp yarn. Also called: filling or woof
   or
9. filling (def. 4).
10. a woven fabric or garment.
11. n → Einschlagfaden m, → Schussfaden m
    n

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Examples

“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).”

“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.”

“Teaching tools include mannequins, slip-ons, hair wefts, rectangles, and profiles.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The gentle Lady, loose at randon left, / The greene-wood long did walke, and wander wide / At wilde aduenture, like a forlorne weft,”

“[Y]ou are Lord o'the ſoyle Sir, Lilly is a Weft, a Stray, ſhee's yours, to uſe Sir, […]”

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