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Loom > Jacquard loom
PREFERRED TERM
Jacquard loom  
DEFINITION
  • The Jacquard loom, or more concretely, the jacquard attatchment to a loom, is a mechanism to automate the raising and lowering of individual warp threads with the aim of weave more complex designs. Joseph-Marie Jacquard (1752-1834) acquired the patent in 1801. It has benn a revolution in the weaving industry.
BROADER CONCEPT
BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
  • CIETA. Vocabulary of technical terms of fabrics (English, French, Italian, Spanish). Lyon: Centre  International d’Etude des Textiles Anciens, 1964; Burnham, Dorothy. Warp and Weft. A Textile Terminology. Royal Ontario Museum, 1980. Tortora, Phyllis, y Ingrid Johnson. The Fairchild Books Dictionary of Textiles, 2015.
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Mécanique Jacquard

French

Mécanique de façonné
Telaio Jacquard

Italian

telaio speciale
Telar Jacquard

Spanish

URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/447
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