A rigid heddle makes it easier to thread the yarn ... They bought frames in charity shops to make small tapestry looms and borrowed blackstrap heddles, where you tie a belt around the waist ...

It’s not the most complex of looms, the heddle is the part that lifts the warp threads up and down, and it being the rigid variety means that this loom can’t do some of the really fancy tricks ...

Pennsylvania-based Steel Heddle produced a variety of equipment for the textile industry including, you guessed it, heddles — strips of wires with eyes on both ends used in looms. Steel Heddle's ...