Hello All,

While reading a book, I came across this expression. Unfortunately, I can’t remember the sentence where it was used in. And yet I cannot forget the expression itself. Could you help me to understand it, please?

Thanks a lot in advance!

I take it none of of you have any idea what it it means, ha?... That’s too bad… 

We were just waiting for someone to go first.

A loom weaves many threads together to make a pattern.  Fate’s Loom weaves together the skeins of our lives in ways that we cannot foretell.  When you look back, you can see the pattern, but no-one knows for sure what Fate’s Loom has in store for us.

From this you can take the leap to “destiny looming”  ( more of a pun really );  or DebbyMoge arriving on a magic carpet (a broad looming over the horizon).

Also the expression ” Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive”  (Sir Walter Scott, Marmion).

Douglang,

Thanks for taking time to explain it!

I thought it was freight’s loom: a pile-up of entangled trucks on the interstate.

saparris - 30 July 2009 08:47 AM

I thought it was freight’s loom: a pile-up of entangled trucks on the interstate.

so fate’s loom not exist?

On the contrary, it does - fate’s loom wove to the scenario where one freighter loomed into another’s path.

Loom is being used as a noun (with fate - a weaving device), and in a totally different sense as a verb (to appear suddenly as something huge).  If one freight truck hadn’t woven into the path of another, the wreck would never have happened.

I think we’ve covered it, I have nothing weft to say.

In other words, fate causes intransigent drivers to direct objects like transient trucks into fragmenting situations.

Shouldn’t you be at work selling figs?? Talk about fragmenting situations??

Back from the home inspection. Fate’s loom came through.

Fate’s Loom??

Fate’s Loom is on another thread, far, far away. Posted by a Spicus. Commented on by Doug.

Well, in that case, it can stay there, nothing lost.

Fate’s Domino - the trumpeter looming at the Pearly Gates

All this talk about Fates Loom but has anybody seen any of Fates carpets for sale anywhere?

The Bayeux Tapestry springs to mind.

The stains on your own carpets will each have their story as well.

Fate’s loom weaves lives.  You may be able to see some funereal patterns of distinguished lives lost in the map of London’s famous Highgate Cemetery, to be found at

http://www.highgate-cemetery.org/downloads/Landscape.Plan.West.Cemetery.pdf