The Jacquard loom was the first automatic loom capable of weaving complex patterns such as tapestry, brocade, and damask. It was able to perform such difficult patterns with the use of punched cards that controlled its operation, although it did no...

Punched cards, used today to provide data and instructions to computers, were invented in the late eighteenth century by French inventor Joseph-Marie Jacquard (1752–1834) and were used to automate the weaving industry in France. Jacquard was...

In 1801 Joseph-Marie Jacquard (1752-1834), a French weaver distressed by the poor working conditions plaguing laborers, revolutionized the weaving process with his invention of the Jacquard loom. A highly influential innovation in textile technology,...

The Jacquard Loom is a mechanical loom, invented by Joseph Marie Jacquard in 1801, that has holes punched in pasteboard, each row of which corresponds to one row of the design. Multiple rows of holes are punched on each card and the many cards that...