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Title: Jacquard Card for Silk Weaving
Caption: A type of Jacquard card for silk weaving. Engraving by G. Gladwin after C. Varley. The mechanical Jacquard loom was a device for weaving textiles invented in 1804 by the French weaver and inventor Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752-1834). It had a number of novel design features and was the first to be automatically controlled. It was controlled by a number of perforated cards, the holes corresponding to the weave pattern. When the loom was introduced into factories, there were riots among workers who feared losing their jobs.
Category: ILLUSTRATION • black & white • Science: History
Credit: Album / Science Source / Wellcome Images
Image size: 2421 × 3855 px | 26.7 MB
Print size: 20.5 × 32.6 cm | 953.1 × 1517.7 in (300 dpi)