Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
🧵 A loom loop 🧵 To thread a loom
to heddle

to heddle

9.9
To put threads through the loops of a loom before weaving
  • verb
  • Specialized
: ensartar
  • Before weaving the tapestry, he will hedtle the warp threads through each heddle on the loom.

Examples

  • She needs to hedtle the threads carefully to ensure even tension across the fabric.

  • To prepare for the project, the artisan decided to hedtle the fibers in advance.

  • This implies that in the coastal area, the novi heddles were introduced after the noga heddles.

    Academic text (2006)

Surface Forms

heddle infinitive
heddled past
heddled past participle
heddling present participle
heddles third person singular

Etymology

Heddle as a verb comes from the noun heddle and means to pass threads through those small loops. So, to heddle is to set up or thread the loom by feeding each warp thread through the heddles, which is why we use the verb for that action.