means The craft of making cloth by interlacing two sets of threads at right angles — the lengthwise warp and the crosswise weft — on a loom.

from From Old English wefan, 'to weave,' rooted in the Proto-Germanic *webaną and a deep Proto-Indo-European base *webh- meaning 'to weave' or 'to plait.' It's a genuine cousin of 'web,' 'weft,' and 'wobble,' and likely related to words across the family — Greek hyphḗ ('web') and Sanskrit ūrṇavābhi ('wool-weaver,' i.e. spider) sit in the same neighborhood. The thread of the word runs as far back as the language itself.