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weft

[weft] / wɛft /






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In this work, however, the researchers demonstrated that weft knitting, the same industrial method commonly used to produce hats and gloves, can create complex curved structures using yarn alone.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026

His prowess and his reputation were magnificent — a magnificent guy — just part of the warp and weft of all good music that came through there.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2025

“These women’s stories emerged from history. Using the metaphor of warp and weft, these women are living in history. They are weaving their lives through history. It’s influencing them. They are influencing it.”

From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2025

By dating the Tatsipataa cloth remains, Hayeur Smith was able to correlate the ratio of weft to warp threads in each sample with published records of climate data.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 15, 2022

There is Brahman, the world soul, the sustaining frame upon which is woven, warp and weft, the cloth of being, with all its decorative elements of space and time.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel


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