Question

[5]. Read the following passage carefully:

Passage: "In a weaving town, an old weaver named Rukmini taught her granddaughter to read a loom the way others read a book. Each pattern, she said, was a sentence: the warp threads were its subject, the weft its verb, and the colour its mood. A mistake in counting threads changed the whole meaning, just as a wrong word changes a sentence. When traders asked for faster, cheaper cloth, Rukmini refused to hurry the count. 'Speed can copy a pattern,' she said, 'but it cannot understand it.' Her granddaughter later used the same counting to teach younger children simple multiplication, turning the loom into a classroom. The passage argues that traditional craft carries its own mathematics, language and discipline, and that understanding, not speed, preserves it." In the passage, 'read a loom' means