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Bier :: Bier (n.) A count of forty threads in the warp or chain of woolen cloth.

Pace :: Pace (n.) A device in a loom, to maintain tension on the warp in pacing the web..

Shed :: Shed (v. t.) To divide, as the warp threads, so as to form a shed, or passageway, for the shuttle..

Fray :: Fray (v. i.) To wear out or into shreads, or to suffer injury by rubbing, as when the threads of the warp or of the woof wear off so that the cross threads are loose; to ravel; as, the cloth frays badly..

Molewarp :: Molewarp (n.) See Moldwarp.

Card :: Card (n.) A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom. See Jacquard..

Tapestry :: Tapestry (n.) A fabric, usually of worsted, worked upon a warp of linen or other thread by hand, the designs being usually more or less pictorial and the stuff employed for wall hangings and the like. The term is also applied to different kinds of embroidery..

Lea :: Lea (n.) A set of warp threads carried by a loop of the heddle.

Warp :: Warp (v. i.) To wind yarn off bobbins for forming the warp of a web; to wind a warp on a warp beam.

Swaddle :: Swaddle (v. t.) To bind as with a bandage; to bind or warp tightly with clothes; to swathe; -- used esp. of infants; as, to swaddle a baby..

Detortion :: Detortion (n.) The act of detorting, or the state of being detorted; a twisting or warping..

Cram :: Cram (n.) A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed.

Warpath :: Warpath (n.) The route taken by a party of Indians going on a warlike expedition.

Renter :: Renter (v. t.) To restore the original design of, by working in new warp; -- said with reference to tapestry..

Heddling :: Heddling (vb. n.) The act of drawing the warp threads through the heddle-eyes of a weaver's harness; the harness itself.

Warp :: Warp (v.) Four; esp., four herrings; a cast. See Cast, n., 17..

Cretonne :: Cretonne (n.) A strong white fabric with warp of hemp and weft of flax.

Twister :: Twister (n.) One who twists; specifically, the person whose occupation is to twist or join the threads of one warp to those of another, in weaving..

Valencia :: Valencia (n.) A kind of woven fabric for waistcoats, having the weft of wool and the warp of silk or cotton..

Unwarp :: Unwarp (v. t.) To restore from a warped state; to cause to be linger warped.

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