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heddle [′hed·əl]
(textiles)
A twisted wire with an eye, attached to the harness to guide the warp threads.
One of the sets of parallel cords or wires composing the harness of a loom.


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This one normally features one harness, with its heddles attached in the harness.
The last step would have been the introduction of patterns of overshot supplementary floating-weft in between these blocks, facilitated by the introduction of a second pair of heddles (Ross 1998:78, 152).
Tie the heddles (string loops) that hold the alternate warp threads.
 
 
 
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