Jacquard
[dʒə'kɑd;ˈdʒækɑd]
Definition
(noun.) a highly figured fabric woven on a Jacquard loom.
(noun.) French inventor of the Jacquard loom that could automatically weave complicated patterns (1752-1834).
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Definition
(a.) Pertaining to, or invented by, Jacquard, a French mechanician, who died in 1834.
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Examples
- The complexity and expensiveness of Jacquard's loom were greatly reduced by subsequent improvements. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The Jacquard loom was also greatly improved by the English inventors, Barlow, Taylor, Martain and others. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- This he was enabled to do by the Jacquard loom. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Jacquard’s invention consisted in individualizing and differentiating the movement of the warp threads, instead of operating them in constant groups. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Jacquard, a native of Lyons, conceived the plan of his great invention in the last decade of the Eighteenth Century, and on December 28, 1801, took out French patent No. 245, on the same. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Subsequent improvements and developments of the Jacquard loom have carried its work to great nicety and refinement of action. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The formula it is desired to evaluate would be communicated to the engine by two sets of perforated cards similar to those used in the Jacquard loom. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In Fig. 290 is seen a modern form of Jacquard loom, showing at the far end the chain of perforated cards. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- From 1830 to 1842 there were brought out the fancy looms of Crompton, the application of the Jacquard mechanism to the lace frame by Draper, and the carpet looms of Bigelow. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The Jacquard device could be applied to any loom, and it worked a revolution in the manufacture of figured goods. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The great variety of elaborate designs of delicate tracery in silk, rich patterns in brocades, and gorgeous figures in carpets, attest the value of Jacquard’s important step in this art. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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