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Answer for the clue "Using a loom ", 7 letters:
weaving

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The process of making woven material on a loom. 2 (context countable English) A piece of such material. vb. 1 (present participle of weave English) 2 (form of gerund weave English)

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Weaving is a method of textile production in which two distinct sets of yarns or threads are interlaced at right angles to form a fabric or cloth . Similar methods are knitting , felting , and braiding or plaiting . The longitudinal threads are called the ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. walking unsteadily; "a stqaggering gait" [syn: lurching , stumbling , staggering ] n. creating fabric

Usage examples of weaving.

With Ceis plugged into the little battery amplifier, she sat on the back seat, weaving a spell of unseeing about the three vehicles.

Both of them laughed as they were led to where a group of brahmacharyas sat amid a pile of freshly cut balsa wood logs, a pot of tar slowly melting over a cookfire, and vines and creepers they were weaving into ropes to use as lashings.

For a good half hour he went on, up and down, back and forth, weaving a glowing picture of that long-ago battle when Buri earned his name.

Jacob and the females were moving swiftly, their articulated feet padding silently over deep humus and soft green moss, weaving up and down, under and around immense, ancient pillars of old-growth forest with seeming indifference.

Over the years he came to resemble a high hill covered in grass and shrubs and stunted trees, with here and there a portion of scale showing through, and the colossal head entirely emergent, unclothed by vegetation, engaging everything that passed before him with huge, slit-pupiled golden eyes, exerting a malefic influence over the events that flowed around him, twisting them into shapes that conformed to the cruel designs his discarnate intellect delighted in the weaving of and profited his vengeful will.

On porches washed with saffron sunlight, elderly women sat weaving withy-baskets, while old men fashioned ropes from marram grass.

The eternity of the soul, past and future, once accepted by the mind, leads directly to the construction of the whole scheme of metempsychosis an everlasting succession of births and deaths, disembodiments and reembodiments, with their laws of personality and fortunes of time and space weaving the boundless web of destiny and playing the endless drama of providence.

Quickly, it reached out and bound the misted form of the Grimpond, weaving and twisting with its magic.

Faint phosphene speckles swam through the eddies and peaks, weaving in and out of the thicker ammonia-laden braids, their light ebbing and kindling in hesitant patterns.

With the small and delicate humanoids who had been my playfellows, I had gathered the nuts and buds and trapped the small arboreal animals they used for food, taken my share at weaving clothing from the fibres of parasite plants cultivated on the stems, and in all those eight years I had set foot on the ground less than a dozen times, even though I had travelled for miles through the tree-roads high above the forest floor.

Perched on his seat, the moist living reins slipping and tugging in his hands, Vanamee, in the midst of this steady confusion of constantly varying sensation, sight interrupted by sound, sound mingling with sight, on this swaying, vibrating seat, quivering with the prolonged thrill of the earth, lapsed to a sort of pleasing numbness, in a sense, hypnotised by the weaving maze of things in which he found himself involved.

Web offered a quirky grin, shook his head, weaving ever so slightly as he strode off.

Jest as I reched the door he come weaving out, muttering in his whiskers and waving his six-shooter.

Temple and Giles Copeland stood on the verandah of the factory and studied the red sails of the junks weaving hapless patterns on the river below Respondentia Walk.

With Chris Paul playing brilliantly, weaving through traffic with the ball like a scatback, the Demon Deacons proceeded to go on a run.