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 draw (the warp thread) through the heddle-eyes, in weaving.
A fiber or metal strand, pierced with a hole (eye), through which the WARP END it controls is threaded.
A frame of parallel wires (like needles) through which warp yarns are threaded. The heddle is raised and lowered to interlace face yarns. Hexamethylene diamine A chemical compound with a chain of six carbon atoms which is reacted with adipic acid to make Type 6,6 nylon. It is a petrochemical.
A cord, round steel wire, or thin flat steel strip with a loop, or eye near the center through which one or more warp threads pass on the loom, so that the thread movement may be controlled in weaving. The heddles are held at both ends by the harness frame. They control the weave pattern and shed as the harnesses are raised and lowered during weaving.
Looped cord or varnished string with central loop through which the warp end is passed. Sometimes the heddle has an extra loop at each end which is attached to the shaft. See heald.
Part of a loom consisting of a series of vertical cords or wires each of which has in the middle a loop or eye which receives a warp yarn. The two heddle frames, each carrying a set of chain warp yarns, rise and fall alternately forming the shed through which the weft shuttle passes.
Anything you put warp threads through to create a shed; rigid heddles are usually made of wood, bone or (modernly) plastic. Heddles on warp weighted looms, inkle looms, tapestry looms, and some horizontal looms are made of string. Some horizontal looms have metal or wire heddles.
A wire or string cord with an eye at the center. One or more warp yarns are threaded through each heddle to control the systematic separation of the warp and create a shed.
