ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews the nature of weaving. Attention is focused only on conventional weaving comprised of one set of warp yarns and one set of weft yarns. The nature of the interlacement process, using a mechanism known as a loom, is explained. The characteristics of interlacement are highlighted, and primary and secondary actions involved in weaving are outlined. Various non-shuttle (or shuttleless) varieties of weaving are recognised and explained briefly. Key woven product types are identified. Numerous point-paper diagrams (which seem to be the most wide-spread means of representing woven structures), are presented, and important woven structures such as plain weave, twills, satins, tapestries and pile structures are identified and explained briefly.
