Meanings
- in compoundsnot comparableusuallyThat uses heddles.
1986, Howard L. Needles, S. Haig Zeronian, Historic Textile and Paper Materials: Conservation and Characterization, Advances in Chemistry Series, American Chemical Society, page 271, Once a heddled loom is used, the spiraling encircling action of twining is no longer feasible.
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[…]all reproduced in Ananda Coomaraswamy's Medieval Sinhalese Art are ordinary twill weaves which are produced with little effort on a multi-heddled handloom.
1950, Observer Annual, page 29It is difficult to decide with von Stokar, that such twills were woven on a four-heddled loom (6).
1964, Robert James Forbes, Studies in Ancient Technology, 5 (1957), page 227Necessary and productive as a many-heddled loom is, there is something basic and satisfying about covering each warp thread by hand, in a tapestry or needle technique.
1967, Jean Verseput Wilson, Weaving is for Anyone, page 15
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of heddle
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