Re: Eine beim haspeln

Hi!

Sally Caves writes:
> Speaking of German, can any native speaker unravel this
> early-twentieth-century description of what I think is a weaving
> procedure for me?  Found in a dictionary.  Maddeningly, it doesn't
> capitalize the nouns"
>
> eine beim haspeln durch einen quer darum gewundenen zwischen-faden
> abgefeilte u.für sich verbunden anzahl fäden
Probably 'verbundene', with '-e'.

It's not a sentence, actually, but probably the explanation what
something is (which would be logical in a dictionary describing an
entry).  I don't know what 'Haspeln' is, probably a type or technique
of weaving.  Anyway, with capitalisation it would be:

XYZ - eine beim Haspeln durch einen quer darum gewundenen Zwischenfaden
      abgefeilte und für sich verbundene Anzahl Fäden.

It's a bit weird, though.  In English:

XYZ - in the context of "Haspl"ing, a number of threads that are filed by
      being bound together by another thread which is wound around them,
      and which are bound together by themselves.

I think.  The verb 'abfeilen' is strange where and it is probably a
different usage that normally, since it then would mean 'to rasp off',
which I don't think is what is meant.  That's why I used 'to file',
which I hope is correct.

**Henrik

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