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Jacquard  adj.  Pertaining to, or invented by, Jacquard, a French mechanician, who died in 1834.
Jacquard apparatus or Jacquard arrangement, a device applied to looms for weaving figured goods, consisting of mechanism controlled by a chain of variously perforated cards, which cause the warp threads to be lifted in the proper succession for producing the required figure.
Jacquard card, one of the perforated cards of a Jacquard apparatus.
Jacquard loom, a loom with Jacquard apparatus.





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... 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


Words linked to "Jacquard" :   loom, Joseph Marie Jacquard, material, Joseph M. Jacquard, textile, discoverer, artificer, cloth, inventor, Jacquard loom, fabric


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