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Carpet edge
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selvage
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n. 1 (context weaving English) The edge of a woven fabric, where the weft (side-to-side) threads run around the warp (top to bottom) threads, creating a finished edge. 2 Any edge of fabric finished so as to prevent raveling.
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The selvage of a knitted fabric consists of the stitch(es) that end each row ("course") of knitting. Also called selvedge , the term derives from "self-edge". The selvage may be considered finished; it may also be used in seaming garments, or finished and ...
Usage examples of selvage.
Yet but one flimsy riband of Its web Have we here watched in weaving--web Enorm, Whose furthest hem and selvage may extend To where the roars and plashings of the flames Of earth-invisible suns swell noisily, And onwards into ghastly gulfs of sky, Where hideous presences churn through the dark-- Monsters of magnitude without a shape, Hanging amid deep wells of nothingness.
Along the selvage of the scrub-girt plain the old man looked long and earnestly.
He listened harder and realized the thunder was not from the sky but low-planed along the streets, where sled axles humped the faulted paving, bounding off stone buildings, cueing windowpanes into quick vibration, echoing in closed alleyways, dying somewhere out there in the heat, distantly, leaving him with the tag ends of thoughts, the selvage of raveled dreams.
Along the selvage of many of the new roads we have foretold, his hens will peck and his children beg, far into the coming decades.
In a few cases a border or selvage of very simple construction is seen.
Presently the serving-man entered with a laver of sea-water, and an Israelitish robe, fringed and bound at the selvage with blue.
You can lose your whole stock if you sell short cloth without marking it by cutting the selvage.