Joseph Marie Jacquard Collection

Portrait of Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752-1834), France, 19th century. Creator: Romier Balançard
Portrait of Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752-1834), France, 19th century

Portrait of Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752-1834), Lyon, 19th century. Creator: Michel-Marie Carquillat
Portrait of Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752-1834), Lyon, 19th century

Portrait of Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752-1834), Lyon, 1839. Creator: Michel-Marie Carquillat
Portrait of Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752-1834), Lyon, 1839

Joseph-Marie Jacquard, French inventor, 1880. Jacquard (1752-1834), inventor of the punched card loom being attacked by the silk weavers of Lyon who were afraid his invention would put them out of

Joseph Marie Jacquard, showing his loom to Lazare Carnot, Lyon, France, 1801 (1901). French silk-weaver and inventor Jacquard (1752-1834)

Joseph-Marie Jacquard, inventor of the Jacquard loom, c1850. Woven silk portrait of French silk-weaver Jacquard (1752-1834), produced on a Jacquard loom

Weaving shed fitted with Jacquard power looms, c1880. French silk-weaver and inventor Joseph Marie Jacquard invented a loom which used a punched card system to weave complicated patterns in textiles

Jacquard power loom, 1915. In 1801 the Frenchman Joseph-Marie Jacquard (1752-1834) invented a method of weaving intricate patterns by encoding them on punched cards

A Jacquard Loom, 1915. A power-operated development of Joseph Marie Jacquards (1752-1834) invention, showing swags of punched cards on which the pattern to be woven was encoded

Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752-1834), French silk-weaver and inventor

Jacquard loom, with swags of punched cards from which pattern was woven, 1876

Man operating machine punching cards for Jacquard looms, 1844
Man operating machine punching cards for Jacquard looms. A total of 400-800 was normal, but sometimes 24, 000 were worked. From George Dodd The Textile Manufactures of Great Britain. (London, 1844)

Preparing punched cards for a Jacquard loom, 1844. The loom had a card for each weft thread of pattern. A total of 400-800 was normal, but sometimes 24, 000 were worked

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