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It is hard to put a true date on when the loom or weaving machine was invented.

There is evidence of cloth being made in Mesopotamia and in Turkey as far back as 7000 to 8000. Wool was accessible in Egypt, as well, but was considered a fiber of the lower classes, namely, herdsmen and farmers. Cloth made from wool was thought to be crude and irreverent. Fabric made with cotton was much more acceptable and has been found in Egyptian tombs.

The earliest power loom was probably invented by Edmund Cartwright in 1785.

Joseph Marie Jacquard invented a mechanical loom in 1801, that was programmed with punched cards to weave complex patterns.

Successful power looms were in operation in England by the early 1800s, to improve on American output Francis Cabot Lowell spied on the new British textile industry. The British drawings or a model of a power loom, so he memorized the workings of British power looms.

With Paul Moody he recreated and develop an adaptation of the British design.

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