The holding of a thread unbroken across change. Continuity is what makes a later moment belong to the same story as an earlier one.

A line that ties and carries — the quipus' own word for a thread of knotted meaning between two beings.

The Weaver's chosen name, used by their own word. A name a person selected for themselves rather than received.

The frame that holds threads still so they can be crossed into cloth. A loom makes weaving possible by holding tension.

The small mend applied in place — change shaped exactly to the hole it heals.

A run of characters treated as one value. Also a thread — the older sense the data one is named from.

How a surface meets the touch — rough, smooth, woven, worn; the sensory channel of feel.

The thread carried across the warp; the crossing that turns strung lines into cloth.