Translation guide
The craft or action of forming fabric by interlacing threads. In Japanese, the general term is 織り (ori), but specific words exist for different weaving techniques, tools, and contexts.
To refer to the activity or craft of weaving fabric in general.
The most common noun for 'weaving' as a craft or action. Often used in compounds.
彼女は織りを習っています。
She is learning weaving.
Specifically weaving on a loom. Emphasizes the use of a loom.
機織りの音が聞こえる。
I can hear the sound of weaving.
Refers to woven fabric or textiles. Often used when talking about the product of weaving.
この織物は手作りです。
This woven fabric is handmade.
To talk about weaving in the context of traditional Japanese crafts, such as Nishijin-ori.
Used in names of traditional weaving styles, e.g., 西陣織 (Nishijin-ori).
西陣織は京都の伝統的な織りです。
Nishijin-ori is a traditional weaving of Kyoto.
Often used when referring to the woven textiles themselves as art or craft products.
To describe the action of weaving something, like a basket or cloth.
The standard verb for weaving fabric or cloth. Transitive verb.
彼女は布を織っている。
She is weaving cloth.
Used for weaving or braiding things like baskets, straw, or hair. Not for fabric weaving.
Do not use 編む for weaving cloth; use 織る instead.
かごを編む。
To weave a basket.
To express weaving in a figurative way, such as weaving a story or weaving through traffic.
To weave together, interlace, or mix in (e.g., stories, elements).
彼は事実と虚構を織り交ぜて話した。
He wove together fact and fiction in his story.
Literally 'to sew', but can mean to weave through (e.g., traffic, crowd).
車が車の間を縫って走った。
The car weaved through the traffic.
Literally 'to spin' (thread), but poetically used for weaving a tale or story.
伝統的な織物を展示しています。
They are exhibiting traditional woven textiles.
To weave a tale.