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Rigid heddles are thus very different from the heddle in common use, though the single heddle derived from the rigid heddle. The advantage of non-rigid heddles is that the weaver has more freedom, and can create a wider variety of fabrics. Rigid heddle looms resemble the standard floor loom in appearance.
A rigid heddle on a backstrap inkle loom, unspanned. Rigid heddles are generally used on single-shaft looms. Odd warp threads go through the slots, and even ones through the circular holes, or vice-versa. The shed is formed by lifting the heddle, and the countershed by depressing it.
Weaving on a backstrap loom with a rigid heddle Unwound for transport, with a smaller hole and slot heddle. There are other more advanced techniques in which, instead of merely allowing warp threads to alternate in their up or down positions, individual threads are brought to the surface to form what is called a "pick up" pattern.
The shed, the triangular aperture on the far right, shown from the back of a table loom Passing the shuttle through the shed The shed shown in tablet weaving. In weaving, the shed is the temporary separation between upper and lower warp yarns through which the weft is woven.
Undated rigid heddle for beadwork, Ho-chunk, Wisconsin.. Heddle bead looms were popular in the United States near the beginning of the 20th century. They allow weaving of beads by raising every other thread and inserting strung beads in the shed, the space between the lowered and raised threads.
Tablet weaving on an Inkle loom. The fundamental principle is to turn the tablets to lift selected sets of threads in the warp. The tablets may be turned in one direction continually as a pack, turned individually to create patterns, or turned some number of times "forward" and the same number "back".
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