Weaving shed fitted with Jacquard power looms, c1880. French silk-weaver and inventor Joseph Marie Jacquard invented a loom which used a punched card system to weave complicated patterns in textiles. Swags of punched cards carrying the pattern being woven are at right and above each loom. Illustration published in Paris, c1880.
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