weaving

Queequeg and I were mildly employed weaving what is called a sword-mat, for an additional lashing to our boat.

Through the lacings of the leaves, the great sun seemed a flying shuttle weaving the unwearied verdure.

Possibly in ten or twenty generations we might have worked up to the weaving of baskets.

= to prepare flax for weaving as linen it is softened(technically, "retted") by soaking in water, separated from its woody fibers by beating ("scutched"--this seems to be what Cooper means by "crackling"), and finally combed ("hatcheled")}

But whether old or new, Spenser's power of using words and of weaving them together was wonderful.

It was a slow, clumsy, and costly way of weaving cloth, this cottage system of manufacture.

The shepherd himself, though he had good reason to believe that the bag held nothing but flaxen thread, or else the long rolls of strong linen spun from that thread, was not quite sure that this trade of weaving, indispensable though it was, could be carried on entirely without the help of the Evil One.

As the Phaeacians are the best sailors in the world, so their women excel all others in weaving, for Minerva has taught them all manner of useful arts, and they are very intelligent.

All threading and knitting and weaving do their fingers understand: thus do they make the hose of the spirit!

But, as it is not unreasonable to suppose that I may have held its threads with a more continuous attention than anyone else can have given them during its desultory publication, it is not unreasonable to ask that the weaving may be looked at in its completed state, and with the pattern finished.