heddle
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Vinony's link graph records 132 inbound references to heddle, and connects out to warp and weft, bandweaving and Japan.
It is catalogued under the topic Weaving equipment.
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- Heddles
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- New International Encyclopedia
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- reed
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Metal heddles
- String heddles
- Inkle looms
- Tapestry loom
- Repair heddles
- Rigid heddles
- Single and double heddle looms
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- References
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thumb|Undated Ho-Chunk heddle for beadwork bands, [[Wisconsin, USA.]] thumb|220px|Three different types of heddles: a wire, flat steel, and a repair heddle thumb|120px|Inserted eye wire heddles thumb|Patent model of a mechanized loom with string heddles
A heddle or heald is an integral part of a loom. Each thread in the warp passes through a heddle, which is used to separate the warp threads for the passage of the weft. The typical heddle is made of cord or wire and is suspended on a shaft of a loom. Each heddle has an eye in the center where the warp is threaded through. As there is one heddle for each thread of the warp, there can be near a thousand heddles used for fine or wide warps. A handwoven tea-towel will generally have between 300 and 400 warp threads and thus use that many heddles.
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