The Jacquard loom was famously the first machine to use cards like this, and it is no secret that they were the inspiration for Hollerith’s use of cards in the census, which would eventually ...

Jacquard's machine was capable of programming patterns with such precision, it was even used in 1886 to create a prayer book woven entirely in silk, using black and gray thread.

[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.

“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 ...

Jacquard Loom Machine at original mill in Pendleton, Oregon (Photo: Business Wire) Full Size Small Preview Thumbnail Full Size Small Preview Thumbnail August 05, 2015 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time ...

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

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 ...

1752: Joseph Marie Jacquard is born in Lyon, France. The weaver and inventor would create the first programmable power loom, revolutionize the weaving industry and lay the foundation for modern ...

The Jacquard Loom invented in 1801 by Joseph-Marie Jacquard of France enabled extremely intricate patterns and pictures to be automatically woven into cloth. The portraits are from left to right, top ...