Warping: alternatives and connections

Among weavers, yarn for the warp. Hence, abb wool is wool for the abb.

A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving; also, the cylinder on which the cloth is rol…

A count of forty threads in the warp or chain of woolen cloth.

A twilled fabric for dresses, of which the warp is silk, and the weft worsted. Black bombazine has been much used for mourning garment…

A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom. See Jacquard.

A cloth with a cotton warp, and a woof of very fine wool, or wool and silk.

To warp; to become twisted out of shape.

The warp threads of a web.

A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed.

A strong white fabric with warp of hemp and weft of flax.

One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.

To wear out or into shreads, or to suffer injury by rubbing, as when the threads of the warp or of the woof wear off so that the cross…

An ornamental appendage to the border of a piece of stuff, originally consisting of the ends of the warp, projecting beyond the woven…

An arrangement of parallel bars for lifting the hooked wires which raise the warp threads in a loom for weaving figured goods.

A guess warp.

The part of a loom comprising the heddles, with their means of support and motion, by which the threads of the warp are alternately ra…

One of the sets of parallel doubled threads which, with mounting, compose the harness employed to guide the warp threads to the lathe…

The eye or loop formed in each heddle to receive a warp thread.