heddled
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]heddled (not comparable)
- (of a loom, usually in combination) That uses heddles.
- 1950, Observer Annual, page 29:
- […] all reproduced in Ananda Coomaraswamy's Medieval Sinhalese Art are ordinary twill weaves which are produced with little effort on a multi-heddled handloom.
- 1964, Robert James Forbes, Studies in Ancient Technology, 5 (1957), page 227:
- It is difficult to decide with von Stokar, that such twills were woven on a four-heddled loom (6).
- 1967, Jean Verseput Wilson, Weaving is for Anyone[1], page 15:
- Necessary and productive as a many-heddled loom is, there is something basic and satisfying about covering each warp thread by hand, in a tapestry or needle technique.
- 1986, Howard L. Needles, S. Haig Zeronian, Historic Textile and Paper Materials: Conservation and Characterization, Advances in Chemistry Series, American Chemical Society, page 271,
- Once a heddled loom is used, the spiraling encircling action of twining is no longer feasible.
Verb
[edit]heddled
- simple past and past participle of heddle