Fiber artist Lia Cook on how the English Jacquard loom and punch cards work together Fiber artist Lia Cook talks about how the English Jacquard loom and punch cards work together. CROSSROADS episode ...
In her piece “Spiral Arm,” interdisciplinary artist Sarah Rosalena Brady takes a Hubble telescope image of the Milky Way and reinterprets each pixel into a set of complex weave structures. Then, on a ...
The art of weaving has a long and varied history. The recent discovery of a 40,000+ year old bit of cord suggests Neanderthals did fiber weaving. The Jacquard Loom invented in 1804, which used punch ...
The origin story of software takes us back past punch card computers and Babbage’s Difference Engine to a French weaver called Joseph Marie Jacquard. Jacquard created a way to automate mechanical ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Jacquard attachment was made in the ...