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The Jacquard machine (French:) is a device fitted to a loom that simplifies the process of manufacturing textiles with such complex patterns as brocade, damask and matelassé. [3] The resulting ensemble of the loom and Jacquard machine is then called a Jacquard loom.
Joseph Marie Charles dit (called or nicknamed) Jacquard (French:; 7 July 1752 – 7 August 1834) was a French weaver and merchant. He played an important role in the development of the earliest programmable loom (the "Jacquard loom"), which in turn played an important role in the development of other programmable machines, such as an early version of digital compiler used by IBM to develop the ...
The Jacquard loom is a mechanical loom, invented by Joseph Marie Jacquard in 1801, which simplifies the process of manufacturing figured textiles with complex patterns such as brocade, damask, and matelasse. [26] [27] The loom is controlled by punched cards with punched holes, each row of which corresponds to one row of the design. Multiple ...
Artworks could be replicated en masse by use of the Hattersley Jacquard (Tapestry) Loom. For example, Sir Edwin Henry Landseer's painting Bolton Abbey in Ye Olden Times was produced in tapestry form by a Jacquard Loom at a Franco-British exhibition in 1908. [4] There is a Hattersley Jacquard (tapestry) loom located at Queen Street Mill in ...
Albert Jacquard (1925-2013), French geneticist and essayist Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752-1834), French weaver and inventor of the Jacquard loom Robert Jacquard (born 1958), American politician
In the 1870s, he expanded his activity in woven furnishing textiles. In 1877, he brought a skilled French silk weaver, Jacques Bazin, from Lyon to London, rented a studio at Great Esmond Yard, and established Bazin and his mechanical Jacquard loom there to make woven wooden fabrics. [4]
Antique Jacquard loom Modern damasks are woven on computerized Jacquard looms. [ 12 ] Damask weaves are commonly produced in monochromatic (single-colour) weaves in silk, linen or synthetic fibres such as rayon and feature patterns of flowers, fruit and other designs.
Tie made with silver color silk in grenadine weave. Grenadine is a weave characterised by its light, open, gauze-like feel, and is produced on jacquard looms.Originally produced in Italy and worn as a black silk lace in France in the eighteenth century, it is now woven with silk for use in ties.