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/wɛft/
Noun
The horizontal threads that are interlaced through the warp in a woven fabric.
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It is all the more remarkable therefore that in one respect — weft colours — some of the pirnless looms are more versatile than conventional machines. Figure 6 shows the colour mechanism of a conventional loom designed to weave six colours of weft (there is never any problem about colour patterning in the warp).
Other techniques for shaping included angling one or both loom bars, adding extra wefts, or adjusting warp tension.
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1993, Anni Albers, On Weaving, note on Plate 17, page 48, To give greater firmness to the basket-weave plain weave, thin weft threads can be introduced that will be covered by the heavier pattern wefts of the basket weave.
The yarn used for the weft; the fill.
A hair extension that is glued directly to a person′s natural hair.
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Teaching tools include mannequins, slip-ons, hair wefts, rectangles, and profiles.
Then, she held up the hair as it would look on my head. She positioned it like a pro, holding wefts of human hair so that it looked like it grew from my scalp.
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In the bonding method of attaching hair extensions, hair wefts or single strands are attached with an adhesive or bonding agent. The adhesive is applied to the weft with an applicator gun.
Noun
the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving