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.
