heddle
English
Etymology
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From Middle English helde, from Old English hefeld, from the root of Proto-Germanic *habjaną (“to have, heave”), from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p-. Cognate with Old Saxon hevild, Middle Low German hevelte, Icelandic hafald.
Noun
heddle (plural heddles)
- 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.
- 1808, John Duncan, Practical and Descriptive Essays on the Art of Weaving[1], volume 1, page 72:
- 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.
- 1948 January, Make Weaving Your Hobby, Popular Mechanics, Volume 89, Number 1, page 190,
- The heddles and heddle frames, Fig. 3, and the reed may be purchased from dealers in craftwork supplies.
- 1980, US Department of the Army, Craft Techniques in Occupational Therapy[2], pages 7-22:
- 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.
- 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.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Related terms
- heddled (adjective)
Translations
part of a loom
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Verb
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- To thread each strand of the warp through the eye of a heddle.
- 1947, Rayon Textile Monthly, Volume 28, page 377,
- After each frame has been heddled, stand upright within easy reach until the full set has been completed.
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- 1994, Kim Mi-ju, Gender Division of Labor and Skill as a Factor of Sex Wage Differentials, Hyŏng Cho, Chang Pil-Wha (editors), Gender Division of Labor (in) Korea, Ewha Womans University Press, 116,
- After heddling she takes the reeds and arranges them as ordered. She knows that if reed denting is uneven, the textile is ruined.
- 1947, Rayon Textile Monthly, Volume 28, page 377,
Related terms
- unheddled (adjective)
Translations
to thread individual strands of the warp through the eyes of heddles
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