Welting

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. This process involves making ridges or lines through heat application or pressure, a sewing method that results in padded edges on fabrics, and the visible marks on skin caused by blows or impacts, commonly seen with injuries or allergic responses
2. The act of creating raised lines on a surface through heating or pressing can also refer to a technique in tailoring that adds dimensional edges to materials, as well as the marks left on the skin after being struck or irritated
3. The technique of forming raised edges on materials via heat or pressure can also describe a sewing practice that produces dimensional seams and the skin's reaction marked by raised lines after trauma or irritation

Etymology: Welting began as a shoemaker's word. Its earliest recorded use, around 1425, names a strip of leather stitched between the upper and the sole of a shoe, and the sense of a raised edge or seam comes from that craft. The verb "welt" itself goes back to Old English "weltan" and "wieltan," meaning to turn over or roll, which is why the word's core idea is something turned or rolled up into a ridge. The connection between a rolled edge and a bruise is more recent. The sense of a raised ridge on the skin left by a blow is first recorded in 1800, so the body's mark took its name from the shoemaker's seam. Both meanings share that picture of something rising up above the surrounding surface, whether a stitched border on a shoe or a line across the skin.

Synonyms: beating, whipping