{"id":1426,"date":"2010-07-30T19:33:48","date_gmt":"2010-07-31T00:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=1426"},"modified":"2011-01-27T09:25:46","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T14:25:46","slug":"why-is-plain-weave-called-tabby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2010\/07\/why-is-plain-weave-called-tabby\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is plain weave called tabby?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/plain-weave.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1464\" title=\"plain-weave\" src=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/plain-weave-300x254.jpg\" alt=\"plain weave\" width=\"300\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/plain-weave-300x254.jpg 300w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/plain-weave-150x127.jpg 150w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/plain-weave-400x339.jpg 400w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/plain-weave.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span> <\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/thesixchix.com\/?page_id=18\" target= \"_blank\">Margaret<\/a> asked me a great question in a comment to my post about <a href=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2010\/07\/handwoven-on-a-rigid-heddle\/\">rigid heddle weaving<\/a>. The question &#8212; why is plain weave called tabby?<\/p>\n<p>I had no idea, so decided to do some googling.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Plain_weave\" target=\"_blank\">wikipedia<\/a> has to say: &#8220;According to the 12th-century geographer al-Idr\u00c4\u00abs\u00c4\u00ab, the city of Almer\u00c3\u00ada in Andalusia manufactured imitations of Iraqi and Persian silks called \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcatt\u00c4\u0081b\u00c4\u00ab, which David Jacoby identifies[4] as &#8220;a taffeta fabric made of silk and cotton originally produced in Attabiya, a district of Baghdad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I have no idea if this is true, or if there&#8217;s another answer, perhaps a better or more accurate one.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So all you weavers, lexicographers, and people who have high speed and like to do searches out there: what do YOU know or can find about why plain weave is called tabby?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Margaret asked me a great question in a comment to my post about rigid heddle weaving. The question &#8212; why is plain weave called tabby?<\/p>\n<p>I had no idea, so decided to do some googling.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what wikipedia has to say: &#8220;According to the 12th-century geographer al-Idr\u00c4\u00abs\u00c4\u00ab, the city of Almer\u00c3\u00ada in Andalusia manufactured [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weaving","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1426"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2270,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426\/revisions\/2270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}