heddle

Definitions

1. A component in a loom, being one of a number of similar components, through the eye of each of which a distinct strand of the warp is threaded.
2. One of the sets of parallel doubled threads which, with mounting, compose the harness employed to guide the warp threads to the lathe or batten in a loom.

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Examples

“The only other table, generally used by operative weavers, is that for setting the heddles, so as to correspond with the reed. Few weavers are in possession of a sufficient variety of heddles, to suit⟳ every reed in which they may be employed to weave cloth.”

“The heddles and heddle frames, Fig. 3, and the reed may be purchased from dealers in craftwork supplies.”

“If errors have⟳ occurred in threading the heddles, it is usually expedient to remove⟳ all threads from the begining^([sic]) of the error and re-thread them correctly.”

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