When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Bible quiz - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_quiz

    Bible Quiz, also known as Bible Bowl or Bible Quizzing, is a quiz-bowl competition based on Bible memorization and study. [1] The competition takes place between teams (often representing individual churches), and participants are quizzed on the content of a pre-determined section of the Bible.

  3. Sackcloth - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sackcloth

    Hezekiah, clothed in śaq, spreads open the letter before the Lord.(Sackcloth (Hebrew: שַׂק śaq) is a coarsely woven fabric, usually made of goat's hair. The term in English often connotes the biblical usage, where the Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible remarks that haircloth would be more appropriate rendering of the Hebrew meaning.

  4. Warp and weft - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warp_and_weft

    In the manufacture of cloth, warp and weft are the two basic components in weaving to transform thread and yarn into textile fabrics. The vertical warp yarns are held stationary in tension on a loom (frame) while the horizontal weft (also called the woof) is drawn through (inserted over and under) the warp thread. [1]

  5. Weaving - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weaving

    Warp and weft in plain weaving A satin weave, common for silk, in which each warp thread floats over 15 weft threads A 3/1 twill, as used in denim. Weaving is a method of textile production in which two distinct sets of yarns or threads are interlaced at right angles to form a fabric or cloth.

  6. Shatnez - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shatnez

    In the Torah, one is prohibited from wearing shatnez only after it has been carded, woven, and twisted, but the rabbis prohibit it if it has been subjected to any one of these operations. [5] Hence felt made with a mixture of wool compressed together with linen is forbidden. [ 6 ]

  7. Woven fabric - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woven_fabric

    Woven fabrics, often created on a loom, are made of many threads woven in a warp and weft. Technically, a woven fabric is any fabric made by interlacing two or more threads at right angles to one another. [1] Woven fabrics can be made of natural fibers, synthetic fibers, or a mixture of both, such as cotton and polyester. Woven fabrics are used ...

  8. Seamless robe of Jesus - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seamless_robe_of_Jesus

    Pilgrims view one of the claimed Seamless Robes (Trier, April 2012) The collarless neck of the seamless robe of Jesus The Seamless Robe of Jesus (also known as the Holy Robe, Holy Tunic, Holy Coat, Honorable Robe, and Chiton of the Lord) is the robe said to have been worn by Jesus during or shortly before his crucifixion.

  9. Peplos - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peplos

    On the last day of the month Pyanepsion, the priestess of Athena Polias and the Arrephoroi, a group of girls chosen to help in the making of the sacred peplos, set up the loom on which the enormous peplos was to be woven by the Ergastinai, another group of girls chosen to spend about nine months making the sacred peplos.