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Jacquard loom   Listen
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Jacquard  adj.  Pertaining to, or invented by, Jacquard, a French mechanician, who died in 1834.
Jacquard apparatus or Jacquard arrangement, a device applied to looms for weaving figured goods, consisting of mechanism controlled by a chain of variously perforated cards, which cause the warp threads to be lifted in the proper succession for producing the required figure.
Jacquard card, one of the perforated cards of a Jacquard apparatus.
Jacquard loom, a loom with Jacquard apparatus.





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"Jacquard loom" Quotes from Famous Books



... JACQUARD LOOM, a loom with an apparatus for weaving figures in textiles, such as silks, muslins, and carpets, which was the invention of an ingenious Frenchman, born in Lyons, of the name of Joseph Marie ...
— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood
... The Jacquard loom is arranged on a different principle. In this loom, all kinds of fancy weaves may be obtained as in table linen, tapestries and carpets. Each warp thread is supplied with a separate hook and by means of perforated card the desired threads are raised or depressed at each throw ...
— Textiles and Clothing • Kate Heintz Watson


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