Museum of Carpet - Jacquard Wilton loom
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Museum of Carpet - Jacquard Wilton loom
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 5 Oct 2019
This is a close up of the punched cards that the Jacquard attachment uses to allow the weaving of complex patterns by selecting one of 5 colours for each warp thread. The colour is actually selected by the absence of a hole. This predates punched cards for computers having been invented by the Frenchman Joseph-Marie Jacquard in 1804-05.
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