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Heddle

Meaning in fashion & textiles, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In fashion & textiles, heddle means: Looped or eyed loom component that guides a warp yarn during shedding.

In Turkish: gücü

How it is used

Use in loom threading and maintenance; individual warp yarns pass through heddle eyes.

Example sentences

  1. A damaged heddle rubbed against the warp yarn until it broke.

    The yarn-guiding component can become a source of repeated breakage.

  2. Thread each warp end through the correct heddle according to the draft.

    Threading order helps determine how the yarns move during weaving.

Common collocations

  • heddle eye
  • thread a heddle
  • weaveThe pattern in which the lengthwise warp yarns and crosswise weft yarns are interlaced in a woven fabric, such as plain, twill or satin.
  • yarnA continuous thread made by twisting fibres together, which is then woven or knitted into fabric.

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