[f. TWILL sb.1 or v.1 + -ING1.] A twilled fabric or texture; also, the process of producing this. Also, attrib. twilling-bar, a device in the twilling-machine; twilling-hook, one of the hooks for lifting the warp-threads in a twilling-machine; twilling-machine, a modification of the Jacquard loom.
1839. Ure, Dict. Arts, 385. Damask belongs to that species of texture which is distinguished by practical men by the name of tweeling.
1880. Plain Hints Needlework, 122. The regularity of the parallel lines is broken in various ways, in fanciful twillings.
1894. T. W. Fox, Mechanism Weaving, VI. 168. The advantage of a twilling machine over an ordinary Jacquard. Ibid., 171. When [the] barrel is pegged to produce the desired pattern, twilling bars … will turn two or more griffe blades vertical, and push corresponding twilling hooks over slanting blades.
