Weaved, wove, and woven

The verb weave is usually inflected wove in the past tense and woven in the perfect-tense and past-participle forms. But weaved is more common where weave means to move in and out or sway from side to side. This applies to all major varieties of English, though British writers are particularly wont to use weaved for all senses of the word. 

Examples

For example, these writers use weaved well:

Picking up the puck just inside Houston’s blue-line, he weaved around two defenders and then tucked a shot just under the crossbar. [Hamilton Spectator]

Judges weaved in and out between them . . . [Irish Times]

In the following sentences, weaved is questionable because the writer uses the word in a different sense:

Tebow’s Christian faith is weaved [woven] throughout the book’s 21 chapters, each starting with a Bible verse. [Denver Post]

Hu Jianbing weaved [wove] mournful, wailing melodies from his sheng, a Chinese mouth organ . . . [NJ.com]

And these wove and woven in their traditional roles:

They wove their passion for gardens and nature into the fabric of America . . . [Los Angeles Times]

Another stunning type of material discovered by early 20th-century archaeologists was Coptic woven art. [Guardian]

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