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Jacquard is actually an interesting one to me, because it overlaps the two major subject areas (fashion/textiles and science/tech). It's also one I (male) knew,

Jacquard is actually an interesting one to me, because it overlaps the two major subject areas (fashion/textiles and science/tech). It's also one I (male) knew, while I didn't know most of the "more female" words. The Jacquard loom was programmable with punch cards, and is a very important early predecessor of computers (especially Babbage's analytical engine). IIRC, there's one (or a replica) in the Computer History Museum. Jacquard also refers to the kind of fabric the loom could produce.

Lammy 5y ago
I learned that one from Boards of Canada https://bocpages.org/wiki/Jacquard_Causeway https://bocpages.org/wiki/Jacquard_Causeway https://vimeo.com/69572175 https://vimeo.com/69572175
pram 5y ago
Learned about that in James Burkes Connections! Amazing series if you haven’t seen it.
- lizknope 5y ago
  Everything by James Burke is amazing. He's written a lot of other books in the Connections style
SilasX 5y ago
Yeah, I (male) recognized jacquard, but only in the context of the Jacquard loom and superficial awareness that they're programmable textile making machines.
- sjburt 5y ago
  My guess is that most men would know it as a loom and most women would know it as a type of fabric. I wonder if jacquard fabric is still produced on anything resembling a jacquard loom.
  - relaxing 5y ago
    Jacquard looms are still in use and the principle is the same, they’re just constructed with modern materials and the patterns are CNC driven instead of punched cards :)
CaptainNegative 5y ago
I thought I recognized Jacquard as in the similarity measure, but it turns out that one is actually spelled Jaccard. Thereby arguably furthering the initial point.
watmough 5y ago
Yves Delorme make some lovely Jacquard bath sheets. If you don't blanche at spending $100+ on a single towel. ;)
fudged71 5y ago
I knew Jacquard because of Google's textiles/tech project https://atap.google.com/jacquard/ https://atap.google.com/jacquard/
Fatnino 5y ago
The computer history museum had a full sized Babbage difference engine, not an analytical engine. It was on loan and the owner took it back to put in his living room or something.
sseth 5y ago
If i remember correctly, the cards used in Jacquard looms were then used for voting tabulation in the 1920s, by a small company called IBM. When computers came around in the early 40s, they were available as a source of input. This is where I first heard of jacquard looms anyway.
ncmncm 5y ago
It was not, sadly, Jacquard who invented the loom that bears his name; Jacquard found one after the inventor died, made some improvements, and a lot of fabric. The true inventor's name, Jacques de Vaucanson, is rarely mentioned. He also invented rubber tubing, and the chain drive, and the essential precision machine tools still used in every machine shop, and lately in CNC machines. Important stuff. He invented the rubber tube to use in a mechanical duck that would eat, drink, and crap. His inventions form the core of the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers, Museum of Arts and Trades, in Paris, not to be missed.

Lammy 5y ago

I learned that one from Boards of Canada https://bocpages.org/wiki/Jacquard_Causeway https://bocpages.org/wiki/Jacquard_Causeway https://vimeo.com/69572175 https://vimeo.com/69572175

pram 5y ago

Learned about that in James Burkes Connections! Amazing series if you haven’t seen it.

lizknope 5y ago
Everything by James Burke is amazing. He's written a lot of other books in the Connections style

SilasX 5y ago

Yeah, I (male) recognized jacquard, but only in the context of the Jacquard loom and superficial awareness that they're programmable textile making machines.

sjburt 5y ago
My guess is that most men would know it as a loom and most women would know it as a type of fabric. I wonder if jacquard fabric is still produced on anything resembling a jacquard loom.
- relaxing 5y ago
  Jacquard looms are still in use and the principle is the same, they’re just constructed with modern materials and the patterns are CNC driven instead of punched cards :)

CaptainNegative 5y ago

I thought I recognized Jacquard as in the similarity measure, but it turns out that one is actually spelled Jaccard. Thereby arguably furthering the initial point.

watmough 5y ago

Yves Delorme make some lovely Jacquard bath sheets. If you don't blanche at spending $100+ on a single towel. ;)

fudged71 5y ago

I knew Jacquard because of Google's textiles/tech project https://atap.google.com/jacquard/ https://atap.google.com/jacquard/

Fatnino 5y ago

The computer history museum had a full sized Babbage difference engine, not an analytical engine. It was on loan and the owner took it back to put in his living room or something.

sseth 5y ago

If i remember correctly, the cards used in Jacquard looms were then used for voting tabulation in the 1920s, by a small company called IBM. When computers came around in the early 40s, they were available as a source of input. This is where I first heard of jacquard looms anyway.

ncmncm 5y ago

It was not, sadly, Jacquard who invented the loom that bears his name; Jacquard found one after the inventor died, made some improvements, and a lot of fabric. The true inventor's name, Jacques de Vaucanson, is rarely mentioned. He also invented rubber tubing, and the chain drive, and the essential precision machine tools still used in every machine shop, and lately in CNC machines. Important stuff. He invented the rubber tube to use in a mechanical duck that would eat, drink, and crap. His inventions form the core of the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers, Museum of Arts and Trades, in Paris, not to be missed.