Developed by the French silk-weaver, Joseph-Marie Jacquard (1752-1834), to control its operation, the loom used a chain of cards punched with holes in a continuous loop.

[Chris] calls his creation the PixelWeaver, and the name isn’t far from the truth; it’s a 32-hook Jacquard style punch card reader that could be mounted over a small loom.

[youtube= The Jacquard loom, invented in the early 1800s, used punched cards to manufacture relatively complex textiles such as damask and brocade. These punched cards were eventually used by censu… ...

“The machine on top of the loom can be likened to a computer while the punch-card is like a kind of primitive computer program or disc,” said veteran weaver Mariola Nowakowska, 54, who has been ...

Punch cards have been used to control the operation of machinery from the early nineteenth century, when the Frenchman Joseph Marie Jacquard patented an attachment to a loom in which a series of ...

The custom-made TC2 Digital Jacquard loom–all 1,000 pounds of it–has arrived and is now assembled in Assistant Professor Laura Devendorf 's Unstable Design Lab. First projects will focus on just ...

Startups News: S. Nishanth, 23, has digitised the 'Jacquard' loom. His innovation, the Novatex Electrical Cylinder, simplifies the process of weaving designs on sari ...

"When visitors operate the machine they effectively hear the sound of binary code." The sculpture will be on show at MOSI until February 2014.