• It refers to the carrying together of a group of warp threads in the stretching of a warp.

• http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300163707 (Silk Heritage Thesaurus)

• Shaft
• Warp (technique)
• Warp (yarn)

• Burnham, Dorothy. Warp and Weft. A Textile Terminology. Royal Ontario Museum, 1980.

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