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What is weaving?

A: Weaving is a method of textile production in which two distinct sets of yarns or threads are interlaced at right angles to form a fabric or cloth.

What are other methods?
A: Knitting, crocheting, felting, and braiding or plaiting.

The longitudinal threads are called what?
A: The warp and the lateral threads are the weft, woof, or filling.

The method in which these threads are interwoven affects what?
A: The characteristics of the cloth.

Cloth is usually woven on a what?
A: A loom, a device that holds the warp threads in place while filling threads are woven through them.

 

A fabric band that meets this definition of cloth (warp threads with a weft thread winding between) can also be made using other methods including what?
A: Tablet weaving, back strap loom, or other techniques that can be done without looms.

The way the warp and filling threads interlace with each other is called what?
A: The weave.

One warp thread is called an end and one weft thread is called a what?
A: A pick.

The majority of woven products are created with one of what three basic weaves?
A: Plain weave, satin weave, or twill weave.

There are some indications that weaving was already known in the Paleolithic Era, as early as when?
A: 27,000 years ago.

 

Where has an indistinct textile impression been found?
A: At the Dolní Věstonice site.

According to the find, the weavers of the Upper Palaeolithic were manufacturing what?
A: A variety of cordage types, produced plaited basketry and sophisticated twined and plain woven cloth.

The artifacts include imprints in clay and burned what?
A: Remnants of cloth.

The oldest known textiles found in the Americas are remnants of what?
A: Six finely woven textiles and cordage found in Guitarrero Cave, Peru.

The weavings, made from plant fibers, are dated when?
A: Between 10,100 and 9080 BCE.

 

In 2013 a piece of cloth woven from hemp was found in burial F. 7121 at the Çatalhöyük site, suggested to be from around when?
A: 7000 BCE.

Another extant fragment from the Neolithic was found in Fayum, at a site dated to about when?
A: 5000 BCE.

What was the predominant fiber in Egypt at this time (3600 BCE)?
A:  Flax.

The oldest-known weavings in North America come from where?
A: The Windover Archaeological Site in Florida.

Dating from 4900 to 6500 BCE and made from plant fibers, the Windover hunter-gatherers produced what?
A: "Finely crafted" twined and plain weave textiles.

 

One kind of fabric had how many strands per inch?
A: 26, (10 strands per centimeter).

Evidence of weaving as a commercial household industry in the historical region of Macedonia has been found at what site?
A: The Olynthus site.

When the city was destroyed by Philip II in 348 BCE, artifacts were what?
A: Preserved in the houses.

Some of the houses contained enough loomweights, for commercial production, and one of the houses was adjacent to the agora and contained what?
A: Three shops where many coins were found.

It is probable that such homes were engaged in what?
A: Commercial textile manufacture.

 

 


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