Word Finder - selvage

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The edge of a woven fabric, where the weft (side-to-side) threads run around the warp (top to bottom) threads, creating a finished edge.

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Any edge of fabric finished so as to prevent raveling.

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The excess area of any printed or perforated sheet, such as the border on a sheet of postage stamps or the wide margins of an engraving.

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A distinct border of a mass of igneous rock. It is usually fine-grained or glassy due to rapid cooling.

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Clay-like material found along and around a geological fault.

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The edge plate of a lock, through which the bolt passes.

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That part of a lode adjacent to the walls on either side.

There Nature has woven a natural selvage, and the eye rises by just gradations from the low shrubs of the shore to the highest trees.

Trim off selvage edges and square up your fleece as needed.

She mainly produces winter scarves using wool, but also uses unconventional fibers such as Japanese paper and recycled silk selvage.

If you like a selvage beach, with amazing waves to surf, ask how to go to the beach dreamland.

In the toe and heel sections, the thong is attached to the frame with a selvage thong.

Trim off the selvage edge of the fabric, if needed.

To tear fabric into strips (usually one to two inches wide), cut off selvage and remove any hems.

To cut new fabric or sheets into a longer continuous strip, remove selvage and hems.

The cloth is woven "one end up and two ends down," and as there are more picks of weft per inch than ends of warp the diagonal lines pass from selvage to selvage at an angle of less than 45 degrees.

Jeanette is the converse of jean, being a twill of "two ends up to one down"; the diagonal passes from selvage to selvage at a greater angle than 45 degrees and the warp makes the wearing surface.