Sash Heddle

Black Hand Administrator Posts: 2,070	Sash Heddle Feb 11, 2019 18:41:43 GMT -7 Keith likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Black Hand on Feb 11, 2019 18:41:43 GMT -7 18th century Sash heddle - Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) Wood & Brass tacks, 12x9x2.5cm
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Sash Heddle Feb 11, 2019 20:01:41 GMT -7

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Feb 11, 2019 18:41:43 GMT -7 Black Hand said:

18th century Sash heddle - Winnebago (Ho-Chunk)
Wood & Brass tacks, 12x9x2.5cm

Is this used for finger weaving? All I used was a stick & I am wondering how this "heddle" was used?
Thanks for posting.
Keith.

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Sash Heddle Feb 11, 2019 20:59:33 GMT -7 Keith likes this

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Keith,
A heddle such as this would be used with some sort of loom. The alternating warp strands pass through the slots or holes and moving the heddle above or below the plane of the warp would pull/push alternate strands so the shuttle/weft could be passed through from end to end without needing to manipulate the individual warps.

See www4.bing.com/videos/search?q=heddle+in+use&&view=detail&mid=126EA8886AD3891BB47C126EA8886AD3891BB47C&&FORM=VRDGAR for how one would be used.

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Black Hand Administrator Posts: 2,070	Sash Heddle Feb 11, 2019 21:14:27 GMT -7 Keith likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Black Hand on Feb 11, 2019 21:14:27 GMT -7 Sorry - 19th century Heddle. Very much doubt an 18th century version would any different in function.
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Keith
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Sash Heddle Feb 12, 2019 12:37:04 GMT -7

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Feb 11, 2019 20:59:33 GMT -7 Black Hand said:

Keith,
A heddle such as this would be used with some sort of loom. The alternating warp strands pass through the slots or holes and moving the heddle above or below the plane of the warp would pull/push alternate strands so the shuttle/weft could be passed through from end to end without needing to manipulate the individual warps.

See www4.bing.com/videos/search?q=heddle+in+use&&view=detail&mid=126EA8886AD3891BB47C126EA8886AD3891BB47C&&FORM=VRDGAR for how one would be used.

Thanks mate, that is what confused me. I have done loom weaving & finger weaving. So this would have been used to loom weave a sash, that makes more sense. Good information for those looking for info on loom woven sashes in the period.
Keith.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Henry David Thoreau
woodsrunnersdiary.blogspot.com/

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