Warp knitting differs from weft or filling knitting in that the loops are formed in a vertical or warpwise direction and yarns lying side by side are interloped.
This takes its name from the Latin word glomus, meaning " ball of yarn" — which is what it looks like, a tangle of fibers that serves as a kind of a transfer station, where the nose information turns into brain information.
In the Antico Setificio Fiorentino, Italy's oldest working silk mill, Beatrice Fazzini turns by hand a vertical warper: a cylindrical machine that prepares yarn for weaving.
This technique optimizes this process by only computing some of the forces that emerge from these yarns pulling each other, and only trying to approximate the rest.
Women in Mongolian herder communities make a variety of products-yarn for making clothes, decorative floor rugs, and toys-using the wool from their herds.