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weave

Craft Terms
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

Weave means to make fabric by interlacing threads, or to interlace elements together; in poetry, it can suggest the joining of images, voices, or themes.

Detailed Definition
Literally, weave is the central act of textile making, joining warp and weft into cloth. In poetry, it is one of the richest craft metaphors, often used for combining strands of meaning into a unified design. It belongs in craft terms because it strongly connects artistic creation with physical making.
Example
Example in poetry:
A poet may weave together multiple themes, such as memory and landscape, into a unified poem; Weaving imagery often appears in poems celebrating textile traditions and women's labor; A poem about fate might describe the Fates weaving and cutting the threads of human life, as in Greek mythology; Weaving voices from different speakers creates a polyphonic texture in documentary poetry; A poet describing a loom might use weaving as metaphor for how a poem's structure comes together; Interwoven rhyme schemes can create a woven sonic texture across a poem's stanzas.
Additional Notes
Weave describes the interlacing of threads to create fabric, and is among the most richly resonant craft terms in poetry, connecting textile-making traditions to broader concerns about narrative construction, communal labor, and mythological fate; instructors might explore how weaving imagery in poetry often carries gendered historical associations, given the long tradition of women's textile labor, making it a particularly apt metaphor for poems reclaiming or examining that inherited craft tradition.
Also Known As
interlace plait braid entwine knit
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