| beart-mheodhain | the centre part of loom, across which shuttle runs, and which moves back and forward to make a tightly-woven cloth. |
| sleinn | the reed inserted in the ‘beart-mheodhain’ [q.v.]. |
| iomallan | a combination of reeds whose movement can be altered to give different patterns of cloth. |
| deilbh | process of getting the yarn arranged so as to be fed into the loom. |
| cura | yarn used for filling bobbins which fit into shuttle (weft). |
| iteachan | bobbin used in shuttle. |
| làd | a number of ‘full‘ bobbins. The number may vary in different places, but may be roughly taken as being 1 gross. |
| spearrach | the weavers’ nightmare! Sometimes some of the yarn in the loom may twist together, usually causing breakages. This is known as a ‘spearrach’. |
| inneamh | Very often when tweed is issued (i.e. warp and weft), there isn’t enough weft (cura) issued to finish the tweed. The amount of ‘cura’ short is known as ‘inneamh’. “Cha d’fhuair mi air an clò a chriochnachadh a raoir, oir bha tri slàt [sic] de dh’inneamh orm.” |
| slat | a weaver’s yard being 7 feet in length. The weaver is paid by the number of these 7 feet ‘yards’ in tweed. |
| sgillinn | small circular disc (about the size of a penny) which is part of the loom’s mechanism. |
