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Jacquard 1. The fabric made on a Jacquard loom. 2. The attachment for a hand loom or power loom that allows warp threads to be individually controlled. This enables the production of Jacquard fabric. Jacquard loom The Jacquard loom was the first machine to use punched cards. It uses punched cards to control the pattern being woven.
It is the "Jacquard head" that adapts to a great many dobby looms that allow the weaving machine to then create the intricate patterns often seen in Jacquard weaving. Jacquard-driven looms, although relatively common in the textile industry, are not as ubiquitous as dobby looms which are usually faster and much cheaper to operate.
A M Jacquard Systems, former American manufacturer of small office computer systems Project Jacquard , a series of smart textile technologies by Google Advanced Technology and Projects See also
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These are softer fabrics than plain weaves. [9] Satin weave: satins and sateens [10] Complex computer-generated interlacings, such as Jacquard fabric; Pile fabrics: fabrics with a surface of cut threads (a pile), such as velvets and velveteens [10] Selvage refers to the fabric's edge, which may be marked with the manufacturer's detail. It is a ...
Woven textile design originates from the practice of weaving, which produces fabric by interlacing a vertical yarn and a horizontal yarn , most often at right angles. [13] Woven textile designs are created by various types of looms and are now predominantly produced using a mechanized or computerized jacquard loom. [14]
Damask (/ˈdæməsk/; Arabic: دمشق) is a woven, reversible patterned fabric. Damasks are woven by periodically reversing the action of the warp and weft threads. [1] The pattern is most commonly created with a warp-faced satin weave and the ground with a weft-faced or sateen weave. [2]
Jacquard machines weave the black thread into either plain or patterned cloth equaling forty-seven pieces of cloth measuring 98 centimeters by 14 meters. The patterned cloth contains inscriptions taken from the Shahada ( Arabic : ٱلشَّهَادَةُ) incorporated into the fabric during the weaving process.