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Jacquard

WordNet
Right-hand glove in white machine knit. "Jacquard fabric" with flowers, wreaths and bows. Elastic at the wrist.
Right-hand glove in white machine knit. "Jacquard fabric" with flowers, wreaths and bows. Elastic at the wrist.
  1. (n) Jacquard
    a loom with an attachment for forming openings for the passage of the shuttle between the warp threads; used in weaving figured fabrics
  2. (n) jacquard
    a highly figured fabric woven on a Jacquard loom
  3. (n) Jacquard
    French inventor of the Jacquard loom that could automatically weave complicated patterns (1752-1834)
Illustrations
Mitaine of blue pink silk in jacquard pattern, trim with silver-colored metal wire and silver-colored metal lace trim.
Mitaine of blue pink silk in jacquard pattern, trim with silver-colored metal wire and silver-colored metal lace trim.
Loop Jacquard weave in satin weave with liseré effect. Design: stacked ornament, from top to bottom of two putti with vines, mirrored back to back, two doves in medallions, from which hang cords with tassels and leaves. A basket from which an arrangement of flowers and leaves rises and at the bottom a garland of vines, a rectangular cartouche in which a garden with fountain, trees and potted flowers and plants, surrounded by spiraling leaf tendrils with a (paradise?) Bird on the left and right. , supported on the underside by a lambrequin with leaves in the middle and on the side, vines and grapes, in two shades of beige / green on a cerise red background. The design goes back to that of French silk fabrics from c. 1780. Stamped twice on the selvedges with the number: 43460/8. Pinned note (ca. 1978-1990) with the letters AP.
Loop Jacquard weave in satin weave with liseré effect. Design: stacked ornament, from top to bottom of two putti with vines, mirrored back to back, two doves in medallions, from which hang cords with tassels and leaves. A basket from which an arrangement of flowers and leaves rises and at the bottom a garland of vines, a rectangular cartouche in which a garden with fountain, trees and potted flowers and plants, surrounded by spiraling leaf tendrils with a (paradise?) Bird on the left and right. , supported on the underside by a lambrequin with leaves in the middle and on the side, vines and grapes, in two shades of beige / green on a cerise red background. The design goes back to that of French silk fabrics from c. 1780. Stamped twice on the selvedges with the number: 43460/8. Pinned note (ca. 1978-1990) with the letters AP.
Fragment interior textiles; red silk with red-orange stitching in jacquard weave. The pattern has leaf tendrils and volutes.
Fragment interior textiles; red silk with red-orange stitching in jacquard weave. The pattern has leaf tendrils and volutes.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Jacquard
    Pertaining to, or invented by, Jacquard, a French mechanician, who died in 1834.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) jacquard
    An abbreviation of Jacquard loom or Jacquard attachment (which see, under loom).
Usage in the news

Fairbanks is a yarn dyed jacquard duvet ensemble in spa blue and cream with applique, embroidery and quilted details. hometextilestoday.com

A firm lustrous fabric (as of linen, cotton, silk, or rayon) made with flat patterns in a satin weave on a plain-woven ground on jacquard looms. kqsfm.com

A mid-weight beanie, knit with a rib texture and jacquard stripes for a nice, easy modern fit. snowboardermag.com

The Topkapi bedding collection features a jacquard floral motif, with ripples of water pulsing outward from the flower petals. hometextilestoday.com

0Rachel Bilson stepped out in this Vanessa Bruno jacquard blazer in Los Angeles Nov 15. usmagazine.com

Rachel Bilson stepped out in this Vanessa Bruno jacquard blazer in Los Angeles Nov 15. usmagazine.com

1 Piece, 3 Ways: The Gold Jacquard Blouse. ashingtonian.com

PXT Fabrics by the Ruby Co. Has joined Purcell International for the distribution of its jacquard fabrics in the United States. hometextilestoday.com

Come out with competitive pricing on bed-in-a-bags, comforter sets and jacquards. hometextilestoday.com

Regency Home Fashions parlays novelty yarns, textured backgrounds and vivid colors into a new group of jacquards that serves as the nucleus for the debut line of new design director Jim McHugh. hometextilestoday.com

Julia Roberts in a white jacquard Dolce & Gabbana sheath dress and simple black cardigan attended the tribute to Tom Hanks at Lincoln Center. radaronline.com

Chief Joseph Terry Jacquard bathrobe. baltimoresun.com

Over-the-top printed and jacquard pants are a hit this season, but Olivier Rousteing's are in a league of their own. nypost.com

Its latest incarnation is Xorel Graphic, a group of wall coverings produced via a combination of digital printing and jacquard weaving. interiordesign.net

A jacquard woven area rug-handtufted, 100 percent wool and made in China-coordinates with jacquard decorative pillows. hometextilestoday.com

Usage in scientific papers

This approach was extended to non separable maps by Jacquard and to higher genus by Marcus and Schaeffer .
Random Planar Lattices and Integrated SuperBrownian Excursion

This work has been carried out in the context of NWO Jacquard pro ject Symbiosis. †P.O.
Informal Control code logic

These numbers were obtained using NERSC’s Integrated Performance Monitoring (IPM) on a 712CPU Opteron cluster called Jacquard running a Linux operating system; each processor on Jacquard runs at a clock speed of 2.2GHz with a theoretical peak performance of 4.4GFlop/s.
Algorithm for the evaluation of reduced Wigner matrices

Usage in literature

When you say a woman doesn't invent anything, I ask, Who invented the Jacquard loom that wove every stitch you wear? "Acres of Diamonds" by Russell H. Conwell

Then we will guess that of the 4,000 American factories 2,000 use the jacquard and must have our No. "The Letters Of Mark Twain, Volume 4, 1886-1900" by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

Then we will guess that of the 4,000 American factories 2,000 use the jacquard and must have our No. "The Letters Of Mark Twain, Complete" by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

Felt, is an application of the principle of the Jacquard loom. "The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 13, No. 79, May, 1864" by Various

Opposite the entrance there is a large painting by Jacquard, representing the death of the duke. "Paris: With Pen and Pencil" by David W. Bartlett

Jacquard stitch and others which we shall describe later on, will be found to produce the effect of brocaded stuff. "Encyclopedia of Needlework" by Thérèse de Dillmont

France has a right to exemplify the Jacquard in its fulness, for it is hers. "Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878" by Various

There isn't a power reeler or loom in the town, nor yet a loom of the Jacquard type. "Letters from China and Japan" by John Dewey

Many refugees were picked up at Hitchcock and taken to the Jacquard Hotel, where they were given every possible attention. "The Complete Story of the Galveston Horror" by Various

Jacquard loved her just as devotedly, however, as though she had brought him money. "Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous" by Sarah K. Bolton