All being ready for the weaving, the shed is opened by raising one of the heddle sticks, and a heavy knife-shaped batten of wood is slipped into the opening.
These are the heddle rods of the loom, and loops from them enclose certain of the threads, thus determining the order in which the warp is to be raised in opening the shed.
The arrangement of the lease rod and heddle sticks has been already described; in addition to these the threads are further controlled by a reed board which acts both as warp spacer and beater-in.
By raising and lowering the heddle rods the position of the warp is changed as desired, while from time to time the weft threads are forced up against the fabric by means of the reed board, and are beaten in with the batten.
See Dr Heddle and his Geological Work (with portrait), by J.
With her right hand she raises the heddle and thus lifts the fifty threads which pass through the holes in the bars, while the other fifty threads remain unmoved.
Thus with the raising and lowering of the heddle the weft is passed backward and forward and the weaving goes on quite rapidly.
The heddle is of the greatest importance in the construction of the loom and it is well worth while to understand what it does.
Fifty alternate warp threads were passed through the holes in the bars of the heddle frame, one thread through each hole; the other fifty alternate threads passed between the bars of the heddle frame.
Heddle and batten and shuttle were now driven by a force of nature and all the weaver had to do was to keep the shuttle filled with thread and see that his loom worked properly.
After beating the weft thread close to the cloth either with the fingers or with a sword-like stick, she lowers the heddle with its fifty threads, the other fifty still remain fixed and unmoved.
We cannot readily understand the workings of Jacquard's wonderful "attachment," as his substitute for the heddle is called, but we ought to know what the great Frenchman did for the loom.
Now the heddle used by the Pueblo woman separated the fifty warp threads that were to pass above the weft thread from the fifty that were to pass below it, making an opening called, a shed.
The heddletherefore becomes a very important factor, and Dr.
They had the heddle in one of its earliest forms and had consequently made the first great step in the evolution of the loom as we now know it.
Harrison by no means overstates the case when he says that the development of the heddleis the most important step in the evolution of the loom (Horniman Museum Handbooks, No.
Mr. Davies' drawing as well as those of Cailliaud and Rosellini show that D1 is a heddle while D2 is shown to be a laze rod.
Asiatic primitive looms, like those from Borneo and Bhutan, have two laze rods but no heddle; on the other hand many primitive African looms have one laze rod and one heddle as is the case with this Egyptian loom.
It may be that one of the two rods is a heddle rod the indication being the fine double lines, but this may not be compatible with the hook at the end of the rod.
Kennedy argues that these rods are in the wrong position and that D1 which is a heddle should be in the place of D2.
The Greek loom may have been furnished with a heddle but the drawings are not clear on this point.
By raising or lowering the heddle frame, an opening was formed through which the filling thread, wound on a rude shuttle, was thrown.
One form of the heddle was simply a straight stick having loops of cord or sinew through which certain of the warp threads were run.
The next movement of the heddle frame crossed the threads over the filling and made a new opening for the return of the shuttle.
It has as yet proved absolutely barren in Europe, though a flutter was raised by its supposed discovery by Dr Heddle of St Andrews, Dr Carpenter asserting the fact, but its discoverer, on further examination, disclaiming the honour.
M, serving to push the lower end of the lever U, when the lay retires towards the heddle leaves.
K, a strong wooden ruler, connecting the frontheddle with its treddle.
Push the shuttle back through the shed, lay the plain heddle flat, and stand up the notched heddle.
Draw it out on the other side, then turn the heddle down, notched edge toward you, and stand the plainheddle on edge.
Weaving from the left, the notchedheddle always stands, while the plain one lies flat.
Turn theheddle on edge, the notches up, and slip the threads of the warp into the notches, one thread in each notch.
While the threads are separated take the other heddle and darn it in and out above the first heddle, taking up the lower threads and bringing the heddle over the upper ones as in Fig.
This will fasten the heddle in its place across the loom (Fig.
With the notched heddle on edge push the shuttle through the shed--that is, between the upper and lower threads of the warp.
Weaving from the right, the plain heddle stands, and the notched one is turned down.
We begin with the first heddle on the left side of the shaft nearest to the warp-beam, then take the first heddle of second shaft and so on until all the shafts the set contains are used in rotation.
The opposite, or drawing in from front to rear, is used occasionally, however, and in this case makes the first heddle on the left hand side of the front shaft No.
James and Patrick Clark, in desperation, attempted to substitute cotton for silk in their manufacture of these heddle strings.
Into the dignified atmosphere of a northerly academic town Miss Ethel Heddle introduces a coil of events worthy of Wilkie Collins.
Mr. Heddle here suggests it may have had to do with witchcraft, in which skins and especially seals' flippers were much used.
Scouties may be derived from the skua, though Mr. Heddlegives an unpresentable derivation.
Either those who lay in the ashes or, Mr. Heddle suggests, who ate cakes baked in the ashes.
Mr. Heddle also tells me that the old name of 'Lyars' for the people of Walls was to a great extent replaced by 'Cockles.
I wrote to Mr. Moodie Heddleof Cletts on the subject, as I knew him to take a great and intelligent interest in all such topics; and I have a most interesting letter from him, of which I shall give you the gist.
I have an idea it is a reference to some bird; Mr. Heddle thinks it has something to do with seals, but neither of us knows.
Mr. Heddle tells me he has heard a woman insulting a man by saying she supposed he would soon leave no limpets in a certain bay, meaning that he was too lazy to work for his living.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "heddle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
