Translations:Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Arts and Crafts/Weaving/3/en
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2. Define the following:
- a. Warp
- The warp is the set of lengthwise yarns through which the weft is woven. "Warp" means "that which is thrown across" (Old English wearp, from weorpan, to throw, cf. German werfen, Dutch werpen). When weaving with a loom, the warp yarns are fully attached before weaving begins.
- b. Woof
- The woof, as often as not called the weft, is the yarn which is drawn under and over parallel warp yarns to create a fabric.
- c. Shuttle
- A shuttle is a tool designed to neatly and compactly store weft yarn while weaving. Shuttles are thrown or passed back and forth through the shed, between the yarn threads of the warp in order to weave in the weft.
- d. Yarn beam
- The yarn beam is a stout pole at the head of the loom around which the warp threads are wrapped. As the cloth is woven, the yarn beam may be turned, unrolling additional yarn. This allows the weaver to make cloth that is longer than the loom.
- e. Heddle
- A heddle is an integral part of a loom. Each thread in the warp passes through a heddle, which is used to separate the warp threads for the passage of the weft. The heddle is usually made of cord or wire, and is suspended on a shaft of a loom. Each heddle has an eye in the center where the warp is threaded through. As there is one heddle for each thread of the warp there can be near a thousand heddles used for fine or wide warps. A handwoven tea-towel will generally have between 300 and 400 warp threads, and thus use that many heddles.
- f. Cloth beam
- The cloth beam is a stout pole similar to the yarn beam, but it is situated at the foot of the loom. As the cloth is woven, it is rolled around the cloth beam. As with the yarn beam, the cloth beam allows the weaver to make cloth longer than the loom.
