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Warp
The structural threads in a textile that run the length of the
fabric, around which the wefts are interlaced.
Was scepter
Symbol for “dominion.”
Watercolor
Water-soluble pigment bound with gum, usually applied to paper.
Watercolor was little used in the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries, but the medium flourished in England and America in
the nineteenth century due to its capacity to record spontaneous
fleeting effects in nature in delicately colored tints.
Wedjat (Wadjet, Wdjat)
The eye of the god Horus; a symbol of regeneration and wholeness.
Weft
The structural threads in a textile that interlace with the warp,
running the width of the fabric.
Wet into wet
The application of fresh paint applied directly onto or into still-wet
paint of a painting in progress.
White Crown
Crown of Upper Egypt (southern Egypt).
Woodcut
A relief printing process, in which the design is drawn directly
onto the surface of a wood block, carved into the plank (as opposed
to the end) grain of the wood. The parts that are to remain white
on the print are cut away, leaving the black lines in relief.
A woodcut can be printed by hand or with the aid of a printing
press.
Wood engraving
A kind of woodcut made developed in the eighteenth century. A woodblock
of very hard wood is used, and is always cut across the grain.
The wood engraver is able to make much more detailed work than
the woodcutter, achieving an effect of closely worked lines that
print white against black, as opposed to the black against white
effect of woodcutting. Frequently used for book and newspaper
illustration in the nineteenth century.
Woven textiles
Created on a loom that is strung vertically with thread called
the warp. In the process of creating the cloth, horizontal threads
called the weft are interlaced with the warp by passing them
through the sheds, the openings created in the warps.
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