Jacquard loom

A handloom in our collection was used for weaving silk at Stonehouse in Lanarkshire in the 19th century. It has a Jacquard attachment which allows complex

A Jacquard Loom The Jacquard loom was invented by Joseph Marie Jacquard in Lyon in 1801 to weave textiles, mainly silk. It stored weaving programmes in a series of punched cards. Usually, about 4,000 cards were used for each design, though a portrait of Jacquard [see below] needed 24,000 cards. I have seen one of these portraits [in the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie, Paris] and the quality is remarkable. Automatic looms were already in use but could only produce simple designs. Complex…

The Jacquard loom was a significant breakthrough in the history of textile production, an essential manufacturing tool of the Industrial Revolution--and an inspiration for modern computing.

Learn where jacquard fabric comes from, what makes it so special, and how top designers are using jacquard patterns and prints to enhance interiors

1752: Joseph Marie Jacquard is born in Lyon, France. The weaver and inventor would create the first programmable power loom, revolutionize the weaving industry and lay the foundation for modern data computation. Jacquard came from a family of silk weavers and went through a bankruptcy and the French Revolution before starting work on an automated, […]

The Jacquard Loom, an attachment that utilized punch cards to weave complex designs, was a forerunner of computer programming.

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Punch card in an old jacquard loom.: