Lexicographical Neighbors of Healds
Literary usage of Healds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Textile design and colour by William Watson (1912)
"A DRAFT indicates the order in which the warp threads are drawn through the eyes
or mails of the healds (the terms shafts, leaves, staves, cambs, ..."
2. The Mechanism of Weaving by Thomas William Fox (1894)
"2, it will be noticed that healds are placed at right angles to the warp with
... If it is assumed that all warp threads are horizontal when the healds are ..."
3. The Practical Cotton Spinner, and Manufacturer: The Managers', Overlookers by Robert Scot (1851)
"A set of healds is produced by it at a much less cost than by any other method,
... By the drawing is also shown a set of healds made by this machine, ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1890)
"... of warp are then separately drafted or drawn through a pair of heddles or healds.
The essential features of «the Flo. 1.—Diagram of Hand-Loom. heddle ..."
5. Scott's Practical Cotton Spinner, and Manufacturer: The Managers by Robert Scott (1851)
"A set of healds is produced by it at a much less cost than by any other method,
... By the drawing is also shewn a set of healds made by this machine, ..."
6. Newton's London Journal of Arts and Sciences: Being Record of the Progress by William Newton, Charles Frederick Partington (1849)
"It is therefore possible, by having the healds or loop-holes, which are spread
or knit over these four shafts, all mounted or knit on one shaft to produce ..."
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