heddle

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.