On 6/14/10 10:44 AM, [email protected] wrote:
David: All you have to remember is that (in English) weft rhymes with left, and that left and right are horizontal.
Another way is to remember that weft is that which is woven. Dunno how "woof" fits in, but "warp and woof" is obsolete anyway. [checks Merriam-Webster second edition] "Weft" actually is a form of "wefan", the old-English word that became "weave". Synonyms are "woof", "shoot", and "filling". I suspect that "shoot" is the result of throwing the shuttle *once*, not all of the filling; that sort of detail is apt to be left out of a general dictionary. (I'm too lazy to Google, and haven't a beginners' weaving book on me.) "Shoot" is more appropriate now than it was when the dictionary was written: nowadays they blow the weft in with a jet of air instead of using a shuttle.
There is a trick way to remember warp,
Best just to remember that "warp" is the other one. Or to reflect that a loom must be warped before weaving can commence. (I have read that warping is more than half the job, so weavers try to plan several projects that can be woven on the same warp.) When you work cloth stitch, the passives are warp and the workers are weft. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://home.comcast.net/~debeeson/DaveCam/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where there are now only 73 messages in the "Lace" folder. - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]
