heddle hook
English
Etymology
heddle + hook
Noun
heddle hook (plural heddle hooks)
- A hooked implement used to thread a strand of the warp through the eye of a heddle.
- 1984, Blair Tate, The Warp: A Weaving Reference, page 96:
- 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).
- 1990, Mary H. Blewett, The Last Generation: Work and Life in the Textile Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, 1910-1960, page 88:
- You had to have a heddle hook and a reed hook, and that's about all you really needed.
- 1990, Robert Johnstone, Belfast: Portraits of a City, page 137:
- 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.
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Synonyms
- (implement for threading a heddle): reed hook, threading hook, warp hook
Translations
implement for threading a heddle