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The Jacquard loom is a mechanical loom. It is used to make patterns in clothing material. It was invented by Joseph Marie Jacquard, and first used in 1801. It simplified the process of making textiles with complex patterns.

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  • A la mémoire de J.M. Jacquard

    This portrait of Jacquard was woven in silk on a Jacquard loom and required 24,000 punched cards to create (1839). It was only produced to order. Charles Babbage owned one of these portraits; it inspired him in using perforated cards in his Analytical Engine. It is in the collection of the Science Museum in London, England.

  • A Jacquard loom showing information punchcards, National Museum of Scotland

    A Jacquard loom showing information punchcards, National Museum of Scotland

  • Jacquard 2

    Jacquard diagram. The numbered components are as described in the text.

  • Telaio Jacquard 1849

    19th century Engineering drawing of a Jacquard loom.

  • Jacquard.loom.cards

    Punched cards in use in a Jacquard loom.

  • Masson Mills WTM 10 Jacquard Card Cutter 5890

    A punch for Jacquard cards

  • Hand-driven-jacquard-loom

    Austrian Jacquard handloom, end of 19th century, National Museum of textile Industry, Sliven, Bulgaria

  • Jacquard.loom.hooks

    Close-up view of comber board, harness, mails, weights (Lingoes) and warp with 1040 ends

  • Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin February 2008 0013

    Punched cards in use in a Jacquard loom. German Museum of Technology, Berlin

  • Textile-Shuttle

    Weaving shuttle on a jacquard sample

  • Loom

    Punched card loom mechanism in silk-weaving workshop; Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

  • Weaver

    Weaver in a silk-weaving workshop; Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

  • Jacquard.loom.cards

    Close-up view of the 8 × 26 hole punched cards—one card per pick (weft) in the fabric

  • JacquardLoomsSAFALodzPoland

    Jacquard looms in the Textile Department of the Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź, Poland.

  • JacquardWeavingPoland

    Weaving on a jacquard loom with a flying shuttle at the Textile Department of the Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź, Poland.

  • PunchingJacquardCardPoland

    Following the pattern, holes are punched in the appropriate places on a jacquard card at the Department of Textile Art at Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź, Poland.

  • Morris Dove and Rose Detail

    Detail of Dove and Rose jacquard-woven silk and wool double cloth furnishing textile, designed by William Morris

  • Harvard Mark I program tape.agr

    Punched paper tape used to instruct the 1944 Harvard Mark I computer

  • WLANL - jpa2003 - Jaquardweefgetouw 03

    Detail of Jaquard loom at TextielMuseum Tilburg

  • Masson Mills WTM 13 Hattersley Jacquard 5977

    Four Hattersley looms with the distinctive Jacquard head

  • DMM 29263ab Jacquardwebstuhl

    Carpet loom with Jacquard apparatus by Carl Engel, around 1860.

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Telar de Jacquard para niños

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