Like, for instance, the image above: a woven piece of fabric that depicts Joseph-Marie Jacquard, the inventor of the weaving ... Once the punch cards were created, Jacquard looms could quickly ...

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 ...

Fairbanks developed the earliest prototypes to accompany her social weaving project ... the (adorable) business card-sized Baby loom, and kits that include multiple loom sizes and yarns.