A red tab taped on the sleeve was the only indication of where the reweaving had occurred.

Burberry raincoats, for example, are so tightly woven that the reweaving can show.

They had dealt with it by falling back on naval tradition and the slow, invisible reweaving of old patterns.

"It's therapeutic, communal and, symbolically, a reweaving of the fabric of their society."

One reason that good reweaving seems invisible is that the work is done with yarn from the garment.

Instant reweaving, see, right on the spot."

It is hypothesised that the sampled area was a medieval repair which was conducted by "invisible reweaving".

In Rome the reuse of ancient theaters and stadiums has long been integral to the reweaving of the urban fabric.

Besides thread-by-thread reweaving, Mr. Singer, like most reweavers, does section weaving for large holes.

The tapestry, by Loja Saarinen, a Finnish artist, needs washing, new backing and relining but no reweaving.

Even the medieval Mass, the central ritual in the Roman Catholic faith, was a ceremonial reweaving of certain fragmented elements in the life of Jesus, most notably the Last Supper.

First Nimrod, then the Incantatrix, and now - leading this defeated troop - Yolande Dor, the woman who'd so vehemently fought the reweaving, back when Capra's House was still standing.

About the changeling's shape-shifting process: "There's considerable pushing and pulling at the cartilage, as if the skull were a soft wad of clay or taffy, and then the malicious business with the teeth, the removal of the hair and the tedious reweaving."

He comes very close to using the Choedan Kal to destroy the Wheel and end the reweaving of the Pattern, in order to prevent recurrent pain and suffering that will be repeated with each of the revolutions of the Wheel of Time.