misweave

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ weave

Noun

misweave (plural misweaves)

1. An imperfection or defect in fabric that results from an error in the process of weaving.
   • 1909, William Borsodi, Advertising Cyclopedia of Selling Phrases, page 1075:

     By imperfect, we mean a streaked gore or probably a misweave here and there.

   • 2012, Al Hampel, Sticking My Ads Out: It’s Not Creative Unless It Sells., page A-8:

     Any misweave voided that day's production.

   • 2014, Thomas Allison, Moonshine Memories, page 98:

     The huge bolts of cloth had to be checked for imperfections such as slubs and misweaves.

2. (by extension) An anomaly or aberration.
   • 2001, Mameve Medwed, Mail:

     Maybe this is just an aberration. The misweave in the kilim which placates Allah.

   • 2001, Stephen Beachy, Distortion, page 76:

     Either way it wasn't much of an invitation to Reggie into the dark misweave of the material world.

   • 2013, Christopher Howard, Prince of the World: Stories:

     Labelle saw the duo slur into focus and initially assumed he was looking through some misweave in reality at receiving spirits on the other side: a young Indian girl crunching over the pebbles, leading a bearded man on a rope.

Verb

misweave (third-person singular simple present misweaves, present participle misweaving, simple past miswove, past participle miswoven)

1. To weave improperly.
   • 1861, John Ritchie, The Sabbeth Bell, page 14:

     Were some ordained their lives in pits to spend, From infant years until their latter end, Nor see creation, hill nor dell nor grove, Their threads of life misspun, the web miswove, Without due knowledge, in their dark abode, Of fellow-man, far less the living God?

   • 1877, Thomas Cooper, The Poetical Works of Thomas Cooper, page 142:

     though Fraud misweave Such shapes as His and thine, to disbelieve That ye exist—we dare!

   • 1888, David James Burrell, The Religions of the World, page 61:

     All its events are singly spun and woven together in the loom of Providence. The Weaver breaks no threads, loses none, misweaves none.

   • 1991, Ben-Ami Scharfstein, The Dilemma of Context, page 4:

     We know that misunderstanding on every level results from contextual disharmony, the misweaving of perceptions or ideas.