Plain Weave | DMA Staging Content Management System

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

The simplest possible interlacing warp and weft elements in which each weft element passes alternately over and under successive elements (over one, under one), and each reverses the procedure of the one before it. Also called tabby, taffeta weave, linen weave, cloth weave, checker weave.

Excerpt from

Irene Emery, The Primary Structures of Fabrics (Washington D.C.: The Textile Museum, 1980, 2009): 76, cited in Ann Rowe, “Glossary,” in Weaving and Dyeing in Highland Ecuador, edited by Ann Rowe, Laura Miller and Lynn Meisch (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007): 289-295.

NOTES

NOTE: Please use image in DMA collections. (See rules)

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RULES

SET OPERATOR AS OR

Apply to objects where number equals 1989.W.2256

Apply to objects where number equals 1989.W.2418

Apply to objects where number equals 1989.W.2479

Apply to objects where number equals 1989.W.2431

Apply to objects where number equals 1991.380

Apply to objects where number equals 1972.23.1.McD

Apply to objects where number equals 1989.W.2483

Apply to objects where number equals 1989.W.2403

Apply to objects where number equals 1983.W.1928.A-B

Apply to objects where number equals 1989.W.2252

Apply to objects where number equals 1976.W.2082

Apply to objects where number equals 1982.W.1863

Apply to objects where number equals 1976.W.2015

Apply to objects where number equals 1994.281

Apply to objects where number equals 1990.149.FA

Apply to objects where number equals 1983.W.1927