(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).
1967, Jean Verseput Wilson, Weaving is for Anyone, page 15,Necessary and productive as a many-heddled loom is, there is something basic and satisfying about covering each warp thread by hand, in a tapestry or needle technique.
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.
