heddle hook

plural heddle hooks

1. A hooked implement used to thread a strand of the warp through the eye of a heddle.

   You had to have a heddle hook and a reed hook, and that's about all you really needed.

   1990, Mary H. Blewett, The Last Generation: Work and Life in the Textile Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, 1910-1960, page 88

   2 more examples

   Threading can be done either by catching each warp end with a bent or straight heddle hook, or by using the fingers as if repeatedly threading large needles (heddles) with separate threads (warp ends).

   1984, Blair Tate, The Warp: A Weaving Reference, page 96

   The heddle hook, used to draw in the broken ends of the warp, was carried in the mouth, the small pair of weaver's scissors in the palm of the hand.

   1990, Robert Johnstone, Belfast: Portraits of a City, page 137

   Synonyms: reed hook, threading hook, warp hook