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A Jacquard loom showing information punchcards, National Museum of Scotland. Traditionally, figured designs were made on a drawloom.The heddles with warp ends to be pulled up were manually selected by a second operator, the draw boy, not the weaver.
Most lace machines stem from the weft-knitting Stocking frame.The Leavers machine is a derivative of Heathcoat's 1809 Old Loughborough.The Leavers machine was invented by John Levers [sic], a framesmith and setter-up of Sutton-in-Ashfield.
AM Jacquard Systems, originally Jacquard Systems, was an American manufacturer and vendor of small office computer systems in the late 1970s and early 1980s.The systems were sold with Type-Rite, [2] a word processing system and Data-Rite, a data management system. [3]
Joseph Marie Charles dit (called or nicknamed) Jacquard (French:; 7 July 1752 – 7 August 1834) was a French weaver and merchant. He played an important role in the development of the earliest programmable loom (the "Jacquard loom"), which in turn played an important role in the development of other programmable machines, such as an early version of digital compiler used by IBM to develop the ...
The word "loom" derives from the Old English geloma, formed from ge-(perfective prefix) and loma, a root of unknown origin; the whole word geloma meant a utensil, tool, or machine of any kind.
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