The type of materials you select in your home can make or break your style. Learn about Jacquard fabric and how it can be used for an elegant upgrade.

when the Jacquard fabric—named after its inventor, Joseph Marie Jacquard—revolutionized textile production. Before the Jacquard loom, manual pattern weaving was cumbersome, and complex designs ...

Developed by the French silk-weaver, Joseph-Marie Jacquard (1752-1834), to control its operation, the loom used a chain of cards punched with holes in a continuous loop. Although punch cards were ...

Punch cards have been used to control the operation of machinery from the early nineteenth century, when the Frenchman Joseph Marie Jacquard patented an attachment to a loom in which a series of ...

Punch cards have been used to control the operation of machinery from the early nineteenth century, when the Frenchman Joseph Marie Jacquard patented an attachment to a loom in which a series of ...