On the high loom, the instrument which holds the thread is called the Broche, and on the low loom it is called the flute.
"The Tapestry Book"
Helen Churchill Candee
The flute or Broche, which is the shuttle of the tapestry weaver, flies only as far as it is desired to thrust it, to finish the figure on which its especial colour is required.
"The Tapestry Book"
Helen Churchill Candee
Also ye finde these words, penetrate, penetrable, indignitie, which I cannot see how we may spare them, whatsoeuer fault wee finde with Ink-horne termes: for our speach wanteth words to such sense so well to be vsed: yet in steade of indignitie, yee haue vnworthinesse: and for penetrate, we may say peerce, and that a French terme also, or Broche, or enter into with violence, but not so well sounding as penetrate.
"The Arte of English Poesie"
George Puttenham