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Cody was weaned on weaving, tapping weft yarns for her nine-foot-tall textiles with the same wood comb she started out with at age 5.

One woman styled another’s hair, patiently working wefts of hair extensions into neat braids.

Flood stories live in the warp and weft of legends and religions and nations — Gil�������t¶��h, Noah, the Greeks and Aztecs, the Norse and Native Americans.

The Greenlanders' cloth started out identical to the Icelanders' warp-dominant fabric but eventually shifted to  contain more threads in its weft than its warp.

In the mid-1970s, she set the loom aside to make labor-intensive textiles with her hands — think all weft, no warp — coiling thread into long, thin, finely wrought ropes that Jacobs used to build basketlike forms.