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repair_heddle
repair heddle
English
Noun
repair heddle (plural repair heddles)
- A type of heddle, either premade or makeshift, used when a thread is skipped or breaks, or to replace a broken heddle.
- 1979, Allen Fannin, Handloom Weaving Technology, page 110,
- A repair heddle allows the weaver to place an empty heddle at any point across the warp and on any shaft.
- 1979, Complex Weavers Newsletter, Issues 1-32, page 14,
- Repair heddles can easily be made from the polyester Texsolv heddles by passing a strip of masking tape through the top loop and taping it around […] .
- 1983, Rachel Brown, The Weaving, Spinning, and Dyeing Book, page 127,
- In fact, if your flat steel or wire heddles break, this is the only solution unless you have purchased fancy repair heddles.
- 1979, Allen Fannin, Handloom Weaving Technology, page 110,