[f. WEAVE v.1]
† 1. Something that has been woven, a woven fabric. Obs.
1581. A. Hall, Iliad, IX. 171. A couerlet fine aloft, Of woollen weaue.
1597. Middleton, Wisd. Solomon, iv. 11. So righteous are allurde by sins deceit, And oft inticed into sinners weave.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., V. xv. 257. This habit of Iohn, was … rather some finer weave of Camelot.
2. A particular method or pattern of weaving.
1888. C. P. Brooks, Cotton Manuf., 132. This weave is not confined to the making of fabrics with an unbroken pile surface.
1888. R. Beaumont, Woollen Manuf., x. 279. It may … be useful to consider how, from a plain weave warped and woven one thread black and one thread white, the solid lines of these colours … have been formed.
1901. Scotsman, 1 April, 11/1. With reference to linens there has been a larger demand for weaves of this kind.
