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  2. Reed (weaving) - Wikipedia

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    Weaving on a floor loom, using a beater that swings, suspended on a heavy wood frame. A reed is part of a weaving loom , and resembles a comb or a frame with many vertical slits. [ 1 ] It is used to separate and space the warp threads, to guide the shuttle 's motion across the loom, and to push the weft threads into place.

  3. Ada Dietz - Wikipedia

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    Ada K. Dietz (left) and Ruth E. Foster (right) weaving on Lou Tate Little Looms at the Little Loomhouse, Louisville, KY, circa late 1940s. Ada K. Dietz (October 7, 1888 – January 12, 1981) was an American weaver best known for her 1949 monograph Algebraic Expressions in Handwoven Textiles, which defines a novel method for generating weaving patterns based on algebraic patterns.

  4. Weaving - Wikipedia

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    Weaving pattern cards used by Skye Weavers, Isle of Skye, Scotland. The rapier-type weaving machines do not have shuttles, they propel cut lengths of weft by means of small grippers or rapiers that pick up the filling thread and carry it halfway across the loom where another rapier picks it up and pulls it the rest of the way. [6]

  5. Warp and weft - Wikipedia

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    In the terminology of weaving, each warp thread is called a warp end (synonymous terms are fill yarn and filling yarn); a pick is a single weft thread that crosses the warp thread. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In the 18th century, the Industrial Revolution facilitated the industrialisation of the production of textile fabrics with the "picking stick" [ 4 ] and ...

  6. Fingerweaving - Wikipedia

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    Arrowhead weave. The most basic weave is called a diagonal weave, as it creates a series of parallel lines running down the length of the weave at a diagonal. Whether one weaves from left to right or from right to left does not matter, as the pattern is the same; however, the direction must stay the same or the pattern will change.

  7. Brood parasitism - Wikipedia

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    Brood parasitism is a subclass of parasitism and phenomenon and behavioural pattern of animals that rely on others to raise their young. The strategy appears among birds , insects and fish . The brood parasite manipulates a host , either of the same or of another species, to raise its young as if it were its own, usually using egg mimicry ...

  8. Reed mat (craft) - Wikipedia

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    In Japan, a traditional reed mat is the tatami (畳). Tatami are covered with a weft-faced weave of soft rush ( 藺草 , igusa ) ( common rush ), on a warp of hemp or weaker cotton. There are four warps per weft shed , two at each end (or sometimes two per shed, one at each end, to cut costs).

  9. Woven fabric - Wikipedia

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    Warping: The warp yarns are arranged on a beam to prepare for weaving. The warp threads are held taut and parallel, and as such must be strong and durable. Weaving: During weaving, the weft yarn passes over and under the warp yarns in various patterns. The primary types of weaves are plain weave, twill weave, and satin weave. These basic types ...