Jowett: weave

And do you think that a state would be well ordered by a law which compelled every man to weave and wash his own coat, and make his own shoes, and his own flask and strigil, and other implements, on this principle of every one doing and performing his own, and abstaining from what is not his own ? CHARMIDES  

Soc. And with which we weave ? CRATYLUS  

Soc. And I ask again, "What do we do when we weave ?" — The answer is, that we separate or disengage the warp from the woof. CRATYLUS

Theod. I consent ; lead me whither you will, for I know that you are like destiny ; no man can escape from any argument which you may weave for him. But I am not disposed to go further than you suggest. THEAETETUS  

Str. The rest of the citizens, out of whom, if they have education, something noble may be made, and who are capable of being united by the Statesman  , the kingly art blends and weaves together ; taking on the one hand those whose natures tend rather to courage, which is the stronger element and may be regarded as the warp, and on the other hand those which incline to order and gentleness, and which are represented in the figure as spun thick and soft after the manner of the woof — these, which are naturally opposed, she seeks to bind and weave together in the following manner : STATESMAN

Str. It was of these bonds I said that there would be no difficulty in creating them, if only both classes originally held the same opinion about the honourable and good ; — indeed, in this single work, the whole process of royal weaving is comprised — never to allow temperate natures to be separated from the brave, but to weave them together, like the warp and the woof, by common sentiments and honours and reputation, and by the giving of pledges to one another ; and out of them forming one smooth and even web, to entrust to them the offices of State. STATESMAN