Group Report: Weaving Flashcards
1
Q
Weaving
A
the act of interlacing threads to create cloth and is done on a loom
2
Q
What are the two sets of thread to interlace?
A
Warp and Weft
3
Q
What is the repeated pattern on a woven cloth, which generally involves geometric shapes, called?
A
Motif
4
Q
What does isometry emphasize?
A
symmetry is a distance-preserving transformation of the plane onto itself
5
Q
What is a crystallographic group?
A
It is the symmetry group of a repeated pattern and is a system used by crystallographers to classify crystals.
6
Q
What are the different indigenous weaving techniques?
A
decorative dyeing, decorative weaves, and supplementary thread weaves
