heddled

heddled

English

Adjective

heddled (not comparable)

1. (of a loom, usually in combination) That uses heddles.
   • 1950, Observer Annual, page 29,

     […] all reproduced in Ananda Coomaraswamy's Medieval Sinhalese Art are ordinary twill weaves which are produced with little effort on a multi-heddled handloom.

   • 1964, Robert James Forbes, Studies in Ancient Technology, 5 (1957), page 227,

     It is difficult to decide with von Stokar, that such twills were woven on a four-heddled loom (6).

   • 1967, Jean Verseput Wilson, Weaving is for Anyone‎, page 15:

     Necessary 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.

   • 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.

Verb

heddled

1. simple past tense and past participle of heddle