Banarasi sarees, originating from Varanasi, are exquisite silk heirlooms steeped in history and culture, blending Indian ...

Both are based on binary systems, and the Dutch artist Anna Lucia Goense is mining that fact for inspiration. Needlework and computer coding might seem to be incongruous pursuits, but for the Dutch ...

He got the card idea from a famous French loom introduced in the early 1800s by Joseph Marie Jacquard that used selected cards to automate the weaving of multicolored patterns.

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, ...

THE black mark earned by the government of the day more than a hundred years ago for its failure to see Charles Babbage's difference engine brought to a sucessful conclusion has still to be wiped out.

There are surely patterns and statistical relationships among the entirety of digitized human writing and visual art a machine can find that a person would not, at least not without several lifetimes.

Embracing a “man-machine collaboration,” she uses a custom Jacquard loom to transform her designs—often based on images found in nature or the cosmos, like this one of the Milky Way as ...

The design drew inspiration from the Jacquard machine, which attached to a loom and disrupted the 19th-century textile industry by automating weaving through punch-card technology.Like the ...