Heddle

Quick meaning: Heddle is a noun meaning To thread each strand of the warp through the eye of a heddle.

Meaning

To thread each strand of the warp through the eye of a heddle.

More Meanings

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.

Example Sentences

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

After each frame has been heddled, stand upright within easy reach until the full set has been completed.

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.

This, of course, discounts the idea that the system of heddling based on Icelandic descriptions (Hoffmann, 1964, 188, fig. 91) has been used for all time, although it could in theory have been used for any of the 2/2 twills in the York collection.

Word Forms

• heddles
• heddling
• heddled

Synonyms for heddle

Depending on context, synonyms include heald.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include loom, heald, simple, hasp, tumbler, leash.

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