treadle-strings

Updated: May 18, 2025

I went to call mine host, that he might let me out to the open air, but, before doing so, I thought it necessary to put on some clothes. At first I thought I was in a dream, and felt the weaver's beam, web, and treadle-strings with my hands, to convince myself that I was awake. I was certainly awake; and there was the door locked firm and fast as it was the evening before.

James Hogg - The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner