destramar

A rare, technical weaving term meaning to remove the weft threads from a fabric — the opposite of tramar (to weave). It also has an old, now-disused figurative sense: to unravel a plot, conspiracy, or deception that had been woven together. Outside textile work or historical texts, it's essentially never used.

• La tejedora destramó la tela para reutilizar el hilo. — The weaver unpicked the fabric's weft to reuse the thread.
• Hubo que destramar varias filas para corregir el error en el telar. — Several rows had to be unwoven to fix the error in the loom.
• En sentido antiguo, destramar significaba deshacer un engaño urdido con cuidado. — In its old sense, destramar meant undoing a carefully woven deception.

Expecting destramar to be everyday vocabulary — it's a specialist textile term almost no native speaker uses in casual conversation; deshacer or desenredar cover the general idea in normal speech.

Often confused with tramar.