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An appearance of diagonal lines or ribs produced in textile fabrics by causing the weft threads to pass over one and under two, or over one and under three or more, warp threads, instead of over one and under the next in regular succession, as in plain weaving.

Woven double, as cloth or carpeting, by incorporating two sets of warp thread and two of weft.

A kind of woven fabric for waistcoats, having the weft of wool and the warp of silk or cotton. [Written also valentia.]

inexpensive carpet, used for passages and stairs, having a woolen warp which conceals the weft; the pattern is therefore commonly made up of simple stripes. -- Venetian chalk, a white compact or steatite, used for marking on cloth, etc. -- Venetian door (Arch.), a door having long, narrow windows or panes of glass on…

e; -- also called warp weaving. -- Warp lace, or Warp net, lace having a warp crossed by weft threads.

The threads that cross the warp in a woven fabric; the weft; the filling; the thread usually carried by the shuttle in weaving.