sley

sleynoun/sleɪ/

• 1

  Reed (of a loom).

• 2

  A guideway in a knitting machine.

• 3

  businessmanufacturingtextilesThe number of warp ends per inch in the cloth.

  • An extreme draft is not desirable in the spinning of filling yarns either on a frame or mule, although yarn from the latter machines is usually spun from coarser roving than would be possible on a filling frame, and it would seem preferable to spin same from roving with a medium draft, or, from double roving, and particularly so for fine sheetings, cambrics and other styles of cloth, that require finer filling than the warp and which have a higher count or pick, than sley.

sleyverb/sleɪ/

• 1

  businessmanufacturingtextilesTo separate or part warp threads and arrange them in a reed.

  • Centering for a weaving width of 15 7/15", sley 2 ends per dent in a 15-dent reed, or centering for a width of 15 5/10", sley 3 ends per dent in a 10-dent reed.