heddled
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).
    • 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
  1. Simple past tense and past participle of heddle



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