Hello to One & All! Im also a weaver. IMHO woof meaning weft came into being through a misunderstanding by 2 people where one's native tongue was different than the other. My Mom was Danish & could mangle english quite well.
I would piggyback many projects off of 1 warping of my loom. Warping a loom is NOT my favorite thing to do. It usually takes about 75 percent of the project's time! One warping I got 7 tablerunners...with a white warp. The next warp, beige, I just tied the thread ends together, three runners on that warp. They were Anerican Colonial patterns that I reproduced. The only difference in them was the color of the weft & the order of the tredling. (Making the sheds to throw the weft.) Hugs, Susie Rose On Thu Jun 24th, 2010 6:28 AM PDT Joy Beeson wrote: >On 6/14/10 10:44 AM, jeria...@aol.com 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 majord...@arachne.com containing the line: >unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to >arachnemodera...@yahoo.com - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
