Textile Structure
how cloth is put together
Generator

The graph a V tuft makes

The graph a V tuft makes
The graph a V tuft makes. The above-and-below graph of a pile fabric, which has three thread systems and therefore no matrix. The ground ends and picks sit above; the pile end below, with a heavy edge to each pick it passes beneath and a faint one to each it lies over. The criterion is the same one every other draft is decided by.

The above-and-below graph of a pile fabric, which has three thread systems and therefore no matrix. The ground ends and picks sit above; the pile end below, with a heavy edge to each pick it passes beneath and a faint one to each it lies over. The criterion is the same one every other draft is decided by.

2 essays call pile-graph. The drawing above is what it returns with no arguments at all; every call below passes it something, because a placement that passes nothing draws whichever member of the family the generator happens to default to rather than the weave its essay argues about.

Where it is called

Changing this generator changes every one of these figures.

A V-fastened tuft. A cut pile bound into its ground by V fastening, drawn in section. The pile end passes beneath 3 of the 6 ground picks and wraps 1 half-turn around them in all. The integrity criterion says the tuft is attached; how hard it is held is a different question with a different model behind it. Compound and figured cloths

Pile is a third thread system

Velvet, corduroy, plush and carpet all carry threads that are not woven into the ground in the ordinary sense. Two of the three systems make a perfectly good matrix and the third is not in it — so the encoding this whole site rests on has nothing to say about the part of the fabric a hand actually touches.

 One cloth, before the knife. Double plush: two ground cloths woven face to face with a pile warp shuttling between them. Uncut, the pile is the only thing either ground touches the other through, and the integrity criterion says one cloth. Cut down the middle, every pile end is severed and the same criterion says two. The whole manufacture is the deliberate destruction of an integrity the criterion otherwise exists to confirm. Compound and figured cloths

Velvet is cut apart

Two ground cloths are woven face to face with a pile warp shuttling between them, and while it does the whole thing is one cloth — the criterion says so, and the pile is the only reason it is true. Then a knife runs down the middle and the same criterion says two. The manufacture is the deliberate destruction of cloth integrity.

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