The shopkeeper couldn't tell warp from weft.
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Weft
/wɛft/
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The loom holds the warp in place, and then you weave the weft through it from side to side. (The word "weft" comes from "weave"!) For towels, carpets, velvet and the like, there's also the nap, or the little pieces of yarn that stick out to make a softer or more absorbent fabric.
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In weaving, the weft threads run horizontally, interlacing with the vertical warp threads.
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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).
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