Mechanical Loom

A Jacquard Loom The Jacquard loom was invented by Joseph Marie Jacquard in Lyon in 1801 to weave textiles, mainly silk. It stored weaving programmes in a series of punched cards. Usually, about 4,000 cards were used for each design, though a portrait of Jacquard [see below] needed 24,000 cards. I have seen one of these portraits [in the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie, Paris] and the quality is remarkable. Automatic looms were already in use but could only produce simple designs. Complex…

A Jacquard Loom, invented 1801, considered a precursor to the modern computer. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_loom

A power loom is a mechanized loom, and was one of the key developments in the industrialization of weaving during the early Industrial Revolution. The first power loom was designed in 1784 by Edmund Cartwright and first built in 1785. Edmund Cartwright was an English inventor born on April 24 1743 in and died on October 30 1823. In 1792, Dr Cartwright obtained his last patent for weaving machinery; this provided his loom with multiple shuttle boxes for weaving checks and cross stripes.

Edmund Cartwright was born in April 24, 1743, in Marnham, Nottinghamshire, England, and died the 30th of October, 1823, in Hastings, Sussex. He was the inventor of the first wool-combing machine, and of the predecessor of the modern power loom. The power loom is a mechanized loom, an instrument used for weaving cloth.

Encyclopedia article about Jacquard loom by The Free Dictionary

Power loom invented by Edmund Cartwright. Image from Textile Mercury, a Manchester paper published by Marsden, in 1892.

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A handloom in our collection was used for weaving silk at Stonehouse in Lanarkshire in the 19th century. It has a Jacquard attachment which allows complex

A power loom is a mechanized loom and was one of the key developments in the industrialization of weaving during the early Industrial Revolution. The first power loom was designed in 1784 by Edmund Cartwright and first built in 1785. It was refined over the next 47 years until a design by Kenworthy and Bullough made the operation completely automatic. Edmund Cartwright : Edmund was born in April of 1743. He was an English inventor that studied in Oxford University and graduated…