As an aside, from the Wikipedia article: > ... using treadles to raise and lower the heddles, which opened the shed in the warp threads. The operator then had

As an aside, from the Wikipedia article: > ... using treadles to raise and lower the heddles, which opened the shed in the warp threads. The operator then had to reach forward while holding the shuttle in one hand and pass this through the shed; the shuttle carried a bobbin for the weft. That is a quite a bit of industry-specific jargon packed into a single paragraph. Without context this could easily be mistaken for Star Trek jargon.