different between heddled vs heddle

English

Adjective

heddled (not comparable)

1. (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).

   • 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

heddled

1. simple past tense and past participle of heddle

English

Etymology

From Middle English helde, from Old English hefeld, from the root of Proto-Germanic *habjan? (“to have, heave”), from Proto-Indo-European *keh?p-. Cognate with Old Saxon hevild, Middle Low German hevelte, Icelandic hafald.

Noun

heddle (plural heddles)

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.
   • 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.
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.

Synonyms

• heald

Derived terms

• heddle hook
• repair heddle

Related terms

• heddled (adjective)

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Verb

heddle (third-person singular simple present heddles, present participle heddling, simple past and past participle heddled)

1. 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.

   • 1994, Kim Mi-ju, Gender Division of Labor and Skill as a Factor of Sex Wage Differentials, Hy?ng 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.

Related terms

• unheddled (adjective)

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