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a line going diagonally across the grain of fabric
The grain line arrow is to be placed parallel to the selvedge. Measure the end of the line to the selvedge, pin. Then make sure the other end of the arrow is the same distance from the selvedge and pin. This process is extremely important. If your garment is not cut 'on the grain', it wont hang properly, it won't be comfortable - you'll always feel 'off' when wearing it, but you won't know why, so you just won't wear it. Never skip this step of laying out your pattern, and never eyeball it. Measure it.
Grain is the biggest. Grain was to the Romans as oil is to us. The grain supply from Egypt was the most important supply line to ROme and the city even had a grain doel. Other than that in the early Rome salt was what soliders were paid in. Then your basics like gold and iron stuff like that. On could aslo consider slaves to be an important resource particularly to the upper classes.
That is the bias. When you have a pattern that states "cut on bias" the pattern piece would be placed in a fastion that would be a "diagonal line against fabric grain". Pattern pieces cut in this fashion are sometimes more difficult to sew because when fabric is cut on the bias it gives the cut edge more of a stretch.
Timber is stronger across the grain than along the grain.
Actually, the statement "To see the world in a grain of sand" is not a paradox. It is a line from a poem by William Blake that suggests finding the grand in the small, or seeing the universe reflected in tiny details. A paradox is a self-contradictory statement or situation.
A guideline that shows the right way of the pattern in the fabric.also it gives fabric stretch making it more comfortable.
wood grain, as at the end of a board, resulting from a cut across the grain.
Beef against the grain.