While historically the term only applied to woven fabric now selvage can also be applied to flat knitted fabric, where the selvages are the unfinished yet structurally edges that were not cast on or bound off.
While historically the term only applied to woven fabric, now selvage can also be applied to flat knitted fabric as well. In woven fabric selvages are the edges that run parallel to the warp, and in knitted fabric selvages are the unfinished yet structurally edges that were not cast on or bound off.