Weave Symbol

Weave patterns can be displayed with weave symbols. These are codes composed of repeated patterns of weave, number of warp threads up, number of warp threads down, number of threads, and shift counter. The international standard for the construction of the weave symbol is defined in DIN ISO 9354. The first number describes the basic weave pattern, where 1 stands for plain weave, 2 for twill, and 3 for satin weave (Fig. 4.5). 

This book is divided into chapters associated with the twenty woodcut illustrations. These chapters introduce the idea arising from the symbolic content of the woodcuts, and weaves remarks in with quotations from various well known alchemical authorities. Ebook available from eBooks.com... 

Moreover, the novel describes a real period of surplus of thread before the arrival of weaving machines. So Marner, like other hand-weavers of his era, can actually overproduce to productive ends. Yet this kind of unbridled production will not be possible a few decades later, suggesting that one should read the novel in a precise realist manner, intimately tied to the land. For instance, the fact that Marner lives next to stone pits is both symbolic and realistic. The dwarf lives in a furnace (volcano, like Vulcan), or hollow stone. But the very doorway to this abode is also the opening to the furnace. Since the furnace is built over the ore pit, the metal, and therefore the dwarf, is often said to live under a stone (Dieterle 5). There is a primary relation between stones and metals that goes back very far in time, prior to industrialization. This antiquity is evoked in alchemical thought. 

Fig. 4 Top The Endless Knot, a symbol from Buddhist belief (left), and an ornamented capital letter from the Book of Kells (right). Bottom A figure in the cloister of the Monastery of Sant Cugat del Valles, Catalonia, Spain, showing a man weaving a chord...

The symbols may be produced by weaving, printing or other processes. 

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