Will he discover ere long, that a lesser riddle would have been to stand in the manufactory of the Faubourg St. Marcel, and abolishing the pattern of the designers, the directing touch of Lebrun, the restraint of the Heddle, demand that the blind, insensate automatic warp and woof should originate, design and trace as well as mechanically execute the weaving of the marvellous tapestries?
"At the Mercy of Tiberius"
August Evans Wilson
The boys cry the "N'-York Heddle," instead of "Herald"; I remember that years ago in Philadelphia; we must be getting near the farther end of the dumb-bell suburb.
"The Complete PG Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr."
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)
Napoleon's blockade, which curtailed Great Britain's importation of silk-needed not only for fabrics but also for making Heddle strings for the looms-stimulated the production of cotton thread there.
"The Invention of the Sewing Machine"
Grace Rogers Cooper