Jacquard looms survive not only at NMAH, but at several other museums. These include a model of Jacquard’s design at the Conservatoire des Artes et Métiers in Paris (see Modèle : Métier original de ...

The art of weaving has a long and varied history. The recent discovery of a 40,000+ year old bit of cord suggests Neanderthals did fiber weaving. The Jacquard Loom invented in 1804, which used punch ...

In almost two decades of covering computing and information technology, admittedly on and off as I have slipped and slid in ...

Stillness permeated the university classroom as students worked in hushed concentration trying to thread needles that, to their confusion, I had just distributed. This was a course on electronic ...