[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 ...

You might be surprised to learn that the term 'Jacquard' doesn't actually hint at a specific material or pattern, but the weaving process itself. So, any natural or synthetic fabric, from linen to ...

A study on weaving was published in the Chinese peer-reviewed journal Knitting Industries last month. It suggested that “a dual-layer composite fabric inspired by Han dynasty jacquard looms ...

Developed by the French silk-weaver, Joseph-Marie Jacquard (1752-1834), to control its operation, the loom used a chain of cards punched with holes in a continuous loop. Although punch cards were ...

By the Han era, these had 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 ...

Punch cards have been used to control the operation of machinery from the early nineteenth century, when the Frenchman Joseph Marie Jacquard patented an attachment to a loom in which a series of ...