Fig. [15].—The shuttle.
With a small tack-hammer drive a pin in each of the twenty-nine dots on each long line, and in each single dot on the four short lines ([Fig. 12]). When driving in the pins let them all slant evenly outward, the ones on the top lines slanting toward the upper edge of the board, those on the lower lines slanting toward the bottom edge, as in [Fig. 16]. Now lay your board aside where nothing will be placed on top of it, and make your heddles.
Fig. [16].—Let the pins slant outward.
The Heddles
are for lifting the threads of the warp so that the shuttle may be passed through. One heddle is left perfectly plain, like [Fig. 13]. The other is cut in notches on one edge like [Fig. 14].
Fig. [17].—The marked-off notches in heddle.
Along the entire length of one of the sticks rule a line dividing it exactly in the middle ([Fig. 17]). On this line, beginning three-quarters of an inch from the end of the stick, mark off spaces one-quarter of an inch apart, making thirty-one dots. At the upper edge of the stick mark off the same number of spaces exactly opposite those on the line. Then draw straight lines connecting the upper and lower dots, extending the first and last lines entirely across the stick ([Fig. 17].) At a point on the upper edge, exactly in the middle between the first two lines, start a slanting line and bring it down to meet the second line where it touches the long line. Between the second and third lines draw another slanting line to meet the first at the bottom, forming a V. Leave the third line, and make another V at the fourth, and so go the length of the heddle, drawing a V at every other short line. At the top between the V's make smaller V's, as in [Fig. 17]. With a sharp knife cut out these notches, bringing the large ones quite down to the middle line ([Fig. 17]). On the end lines just below the middle line bore a hole with a small gimlet or a hat-pin heated red-hot at Letter A in [Fig. 17]. Indeed the notches, too, may be made with a hat-pin by laying the red-hot end across the edge of the stick at the top of the line, and pressing it down while rubbing it back and forth. If you are unused to handling a knife, burning the notches will be the easier way. You can shape and trim them off afterward with the knife.