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Jacquard

noun
1.
French inventor of the Jacquard loom that could automatically weave complicated patterns (1752-1834).  Synonyms: Joseph M. Jacquard, Joseph Marie Jacquard.
2.
A highly figured fabric woven on a Jacquard loom.
3.
A loom with an attachment for forming openings for the passage of the shuttle between the warp threads; used in weaving figured fabrics.  Synonym: Jacquard loom.



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"Jacquard" Quotes from Famous Books



... commercial quarter, in the depths of the gloomy ground floors, inhabited by the Persians and the Jews, within the miserable shops are sold carpets of incredible fineness, and colors artistically combined, woven mostly by old women without any Jacquard cards. ...
— The Adventures of a Special Correspondent • Jules Verne
... Weaving—Weaving Processes, Classes of Weave—Plain or Homespun Weave, Twill, Satin Weaves, Figure Weaving (Jacquard apparatus), Double Cloth, Pile Weaving, ...
— Textiles • William H. Dooley
... in the depths of the gloomy ground floors, inhabited by the Persians and the Jews, within the miserable shops are sold carpets of incredible fineness, and colors artistically combined, woven mostly by old women without any Jacquard cards. ...
— The Adventures of a Special Correspondent • Jules Verne
... 18th, Mr. Stephenson passed through with the first locomotive. The second tube was proceeded with on the removal of the first from the platform, and was completed and floated in seven months. The rapidity with which this second tube was constructed was in no small degree owing to the Jacquard punching-machine, contrived for the purpose by Mr. Roberts of Manchester. This tube was finally fixed in its permanent bed on the 2nd ...
— Lives of the Engineers - The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson • Samuel Smiles


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