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Joseph Mary Jacquard
by josph jacquard he thought weaving was cool
If a tapestry is a throw blanket, (which throw blankets are usually made by jacquard weaving, unless quilted) are easily washable in a washing machine using cold water and a gentle cycle. However a wall hanging that is a jacquard woven tapestry should be dry cleaned only since there is a backing (lining) and the weave is much tighter. A dry cleaner with experience in cleaning tapestries should only be used.
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Joseph Marie Jacquard invented the Jacquard loom in 1804. It was a machine that weaved complex fabric design. It was the first machine that used punched cards. These (punched cards) were used to control the weaving process particularly the design of the clothes to be woven. In others words, he made a programmable loom,
Three inventors who revolutionized the textile industry are Samuel Slater, Eli Whitney, and Joseph Marie Jacquard. Slater pioneered the factory system in America, Whitney invented the cotton gin, and Jacquard developed the Jacquard loom, which used punched cards to control the weaving of intricate patterns.
Joseph Mary Jacquard
by josph jacquard he thought weaving was cool
Joseph Marie Jacquard
Jacquard is a weaving pattern; fabric woven from cotton in this pattern could be called jacquard cotton.
Joseph Marie Charles Jacquard
Joseph-Marie Jacquard in 1801.
Joseph Marie Jacquard in 1801.
A Jacquard loom is the first automatic loom and is a precursor to all the mechanical looms that are in use today. It is actually an improvement of the semi-automatic looms devised by Frenchmen, Basile Bouchon, Baptiste Falcon and Jacques Vaucanson. The loom was controlled by a series of punched "cards" that were looped together to form a repeating pattern. The holes were sensed by pins which determined which color showed thru (If you know weaving, it guided the warp thread to see if it was under or over the weft thread).This notion was later incorporated into punched cards used for collation machines which ultimately evolved into computers.Although there are still some punched card looms for use by hobbyists and for historical purposes, most of the looms today are controlled digitally.