heddle hook

heddle +‎ hook

heddle hook (plural heddle hooks)

1. A hooked implement used to thread a strand of the warp through the eye of a heddle.
   • 1984, Blair Tate, The Warp: A Weaving Reference‎, page 96:

     Threading can be done either by catching each warp end with a bent or straight heddle hook, or by using the fingers as if repeatedly threading large needles (heddles) with separate threads (warp ends).

   • 1990, Mary H. Blewett, The Last Generation: Work and Life in the Textile Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, 1910-1960‎, page 88:

     You had to have a heddle hook and a reed hook, and that's about all you really needed.

   • 1990, Robert Johnstone, Belfast: Portraits of a City‎, page 137:

     The heddle hook, used to draw in the broken ends of the warp, was carried in the mouth, the small pair of weaver's scissors in the palm of the hand.

• (implement for threading a heddle): reed hook, threading hook, warp hook