different between unheddled vs heddle

English

Etymology

un- +? heddled

Adjective

unheddled (not comparable)

1. (of a thread of the warp) That has not been heddled.
   • 1978, Judy Ziek De Rodriguez, Nona Ziek, Weaving on a Backstrap Loom: Pattern Designs from Guatemala, page 172,

     It may be that pulling on a heddle string has involved an unheddled thread that can be pulled loose.

   • 1978, Nina Holland, Weaving Primer: A Complete Guide to Inkle, Backstrap, and Frame Looms, page 24,

     Make shed 1 again by pushing up on the unheddled yarns under bar F.

   • 1986, Barbara K. Nordquist, Emma Jean Mettam, Kathy Jansen, Traditional Folk Textiles and Dress: Selected Readings and Bibliography, page 289,

     […] the woman forms the first shed by drawing the heddle lath and the warp threads it controls towards herself with one hand while depressing ihe loose unheddled threads with the other.

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)

Translations

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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