How to Weave a Crossword Puzzle

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fabric is basically this over under idea. You're passing things over and under different pieces to create this crossword puzzle, this weave of threads. Weft is what you're inserting as it goes from left to right. The hard part if setting it up in the first place,. getting those warp threads taut keeping them taut o, making sure that they don't tangle.

Author and journalist Virginia Postrel talks about her book The Fabric of Civilization and How Textiles Made the World with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Postrel tells the fascinating story behind the clothes we wear and everything that goes into producing them throughout history. The history of textiles, Postrel argues, is a good way of understanding the history of the world.