Wefty Woman

So I was thinking about the strange terms that we use in weaving. Some of them have made it into everyday language. For example, "it will all come out in the wash" is a phrase that is attributed to weavers. When you take a woven piece off the loom, part of the finishing is to rinse or wash the item. This sets and evens out the weave so that if there was a little oppsie you did while weaving it on the loom, it would work itself out or "come out in the wash".

What other phrases or terms of endearment can you come up with?

We already have a wonderful explanation of the phrase "Sley the Dent" from Dawn of www.sleythedent.com

I will copy her comment here:

Oh wow. As my weaving studio is called "Sley The Dent" and my son develops computer games for a living, I'll have to ask him when "Warp Drive Mario: Sley the Dent" is being released! What a hoot!
I can see the potential, can't you weavers?! For me "sley the dent" brings to mind my inner-Athena defending my loom from warp tangling goblins. Syne must have had similar thoughts for her pod-cast-drama "Buffy the Reed Sleyer".
Oh, I can see a fun (and educational!) weaving game. Go-go-weaving-gadget? Eliminate warp tangling goblins while you make your way through the game levels, wrong answers result in broken warp threads: (1) pick colors for your warp, from the 2000+ pantone possibilities, see how the colors interact when placed beside one another in a virtual warp wrapping. (2) learn about sheep, goats, pineapple, rabbit, bamboo, silk worms, cotton, yak, bison, rayon, nylon, tencel, possum, llama, alpaca, linen, hemp, ramie, and plarn as you pick out fibers for your warp and weft.
(3) Learn about being "green". What does it mean to be an organic cotton or organic wool? What are good fiber growing and dyeing practices vs un-healthy or non-ecofriendly ones? (4)Exercise your mathematical brain bits while you learn about epi, ppi, take-up, tex, shrinkage, yards/pound, meters/kg, and the mystifying 20/2 vs 2/20. (5)???

*A dent is a space in the reed, the reed is a part of the beater. The reed keeps the warp threads spaced in a fixed density. To sley is the act of threading a warp thread through a dent space in the reed. One of the many steps in warping a loom, before you can weave on it.

I think this new idea for a video game is brilliant.

Here is another: "Warped a Dog"

This is when you take an enormous amount of time and planning on paper (but more than likely you did not do a sample swatch) and you warp up a loom to begin what you envision will become a masterpiece. However, your hopes are dashed when you begin to weave and you realize it is going to be one ugly work of crap...(I'm sorry craft.)

So what do you do? Well, after it sits for a while on your loom collecting dust (cause you are totally disgusted with it, but the thought of wasting that yarn keeps you from putting it out of its misery) you get up enough nerve to take those big Gingher Scissors...you know, the ones that are sharp as hell...and you free yourself from the disappointment and frustration of that "dog". You cut that ugly warp of your loom and breath a sigh of relief.

We have all experienced this, in fact I have a "warped dog" starring me in the face right now. Which, I am getting prepared (in other words, building up the courage) to brutally remove from my loom after I finish writing this post.

What other phrases can you come up with?

Start those fingers moving and post one hell of a creative comment. That is my challenge to you, now get on it!

Thank you,
Wefty Woman
One Warped Bitch

*Edited to add an actual definition of the phrase "sley the dent"