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The Jackard Weave
The Jackard loom was a device, innovated by Joseph Marie Jackard in 1804. Each new fabric design was encoded in thick cardboard cards. A hole in the card told the loom, yes, lift this thread. One card represented just one pass of thread so there would be lots of cards sewed together. This is Chris Garcia, also a curator at the Computer History Museum.
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