User:Doublecloth/sandbox

Regarding the Gauze page: The primary definition of gauze weave, derived from Irene Emery's book, is technically correct. And this definition is accompanied by a clearly drawn and labeled representation of the structure of a simple gauze weave.

However, the illustration incorrectly reverses the function of warps and wefts in gauze structure, and contradicts the page's text definition of that structure. In the illustration, the straight blue vertical yarns are labeled warps and the twisted pairs of yellow yarns are labeled wefts, the opposite of actual gauze weave structure.

I have never seen a true gauze weave in which pairs of wefts crossed between single warps, and am not sure this is even mechanically possible for any practical purpose.

A more complete discussion of gauze weave is contained on the Wikipedia "Leno weave" page, which also includes an illustration correctly depicting the structure of gauze. Doublecloth (talk) 04:38, 30 November 2013 (UTC)