These later evolved into sophisticated machines with up to 120 heddle rods – a technology preserved in the world’s first jacquard weaving machine unearthed at Chengdu’s Laoguanshan Tombs.

This machine—a loom—could process so ... a woven piece of fabric that depicts Joseph-Marie Jacquard, the inventor of the weaving technology that made its creation possible.

An expensive design system is required to prepare the designs for the loom, and possibly a card-cutting machine. Weaving is more costly since Jacquard mechanisms are more liable to create faults.

the Jacquard loom. This machine, which used carefully designed punch cards to determine the sequence of weaving operations, created patterns out of thread based on a binary system. (Since woven ...

said to be inspired by a French “jacquard” weaving machine. A new exhibition in Palo Alto examines the enduring link between the disciplines, featuring almost 20 artists working in everything ...

he invented a machine to save himself the labor. Jacquard’s key idea was to store brocade patterns on perforated cards that could be fed through the loom, with one card per line of weaving.

In the early 19th Century, Joseph Marie Jacquard invented a remarkable machine that reinvigorated the fashion industry - and ultimately led to the modern computer. Life: Connected is a video ...

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osCPWMyJOj8&w=470] The Jacquard loom, invented in the early 1800s, used punched cards to manufacture relatively complex ...