I am a proud new owner of a older Toika loom with 16 shafts and I have been getting her ready for a project and have the heddles almost threaded, am only using 8 harnesses at the present time since I was only use to 4 harnesses on my other 2 looms. I have a question do you cut the heddles a part or leave them connected, This has been a ongoing debate with my husband. I like the option of moving them separately so I have cut the ones for this project and took the others off the loom for now, I really like the way you can add them easily if you miss counted. I will have lots of questions so thanks in advance for all the advice