An archaic or dialectal variant of 'chain,' or a type of fabric/weaving pattern (chaine), the warp threads in a loom.
From Old French 'chaîne', from Latin 'catena' (chain). The spelling 'chane' represents either dialectal pronunciation or the French weaving term 'chaine' (warp) borrowed into English textile vocabulary.
In weaving, the 'chane' (chaine) and the 'weft' are literally the skeleton of fabric—understanding these two perpendicular systems of threads is like understanding that all cloth is actually just organized crisscrossing, a pattern humans figured out thousands of years ago.
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