selvage

English [edit]

A selvage.

A corruption of "self-edge".

selvage (countable and uncountable; plural selvages)

(weaving) The edge of a woven fabric, where the weft (side-to-side) threads run around the warp (top to bottom) threads, creating a finished edge.
Any edge of fabric finished so as to prevent raveling.
- 1803, Earsmus Darwin, The Temple of Nature^[1], The Gutenberg Project, published 2008:
  
  Her stately limbs the gather'd folds surround, / And spread their golden selvage on the ground.
(printing) The excess area of any printed or perforated sheet, such as the border on a sheet of postage stamps or the wide margins of an engraving.
(geology) A distinct border of a mass of igneous rock. It is usually fine-grained or glassy due to rapid cooling.
(geology) Clay-like material found along and around a geological fault.
The edge plate of a lock, through which the bolt passes.

(Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)

edge of a fabric

border on a sheet of postage stamps