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jacquard: a standalone construct

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● anchor · a single construct in weaving technology Nearest construct by meaning·not indexed
jacquard1 CONSTRUCTJacquard weavingJACQUARD · PUNCHED CARDS

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Weaving technology

Thread-by-thread programmable patterning

A jacquard is a loom mechanism (and the richly patterned fabric it makes) that controls every warp thread individually, so complex figured designs like brocade and damask can be woven without a weaver lifting threads by hand. Joseph Marie Jacquard's early-19th-century loom used a chain of punched cards, each hole deciding whether a particular warp end was raised for the next pass, which turned the pattern into a stored, reusable program. James Essinger's Jacquard's web traces how that punched-card idea carried forward into Babbage's engines and later data processing, and Kadolph's Textiles describes the woven fabrics the mechanism produces. The referent is thread-by-thread programmable patterning in weaving.[1][2]

Unit
The number of independently controlled warp ends and the size of the pattern repeat
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Described by the count of hooks or ends under individual control and the dimensions of the woven design repeat

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damask1 fields · 2 citationsanchor · a standalone constructchain3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs

References

  1. Essinger, J. (2004). Jacquard's web: How a hand-loom led to the birth of the information age. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780192805775
  2. Kadolph, S. J. (2010). Textiles (11th ed.). Pearson. ISBN 9780135007594

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