Heddle

(n.) 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.

(v. t.) To draw (the warp thread) through the heddle-eyes, in weaving.

手打:威利

• The intervening loops and threads are attached to another frame or heddle, and the two heddles by being worked, one up and the other down, separate the warp threads to form the shed. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• For this purpose the warp threads, usually horizontal, are each passed through a loop, and every alternate loop is attached to a frame called a heddle. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The intervening loops and threads are attached to another frame or heddle, and the two heddles by being worked, one up and the other down, separate the warp threads to form the shed. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Among the recent devices is one which dispenses with the expensive and skilful work by hand of drawing the warp threads into the eyes of the heddles and through the reed of the loom. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The drawing of warp threads into the eyes of the heddles and through the reed of a loom requires great skill, and prior to 1880 was performed by hand at great expense. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.

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