ジャカード生地の歴史

ジャカード生地の歴史

ジャカード織機が発明される前は、錦織や錦織などの複雑な装飾布は-時間がかかりました。 その結果、これらの生地は非常に高価であり、エリートだけが利用できます。

しかし、1804年までに、複雑なパターンを布に織り込むプロセスをはるかに簡単にするためのさまざまな機械がすでに利用可能になりました。 バジル・ブション、ジャン・バプティスト・ファルコン、ジャック・ヴォーカンソンなどの初期の発明家の成功に基づいて、ジョセフ・マリー・ジャカードは、既存の織機に直接接続された新しい機械でパターン織り生産の機械化を完成させました。

As one of the earliest examples of machines operating with punched cards, textile manufacturers "programmed" jacquard looms to produce certain patterns by arranging a series of punched paper cards. Modern Jacquard looms use computer programs rather than cards to produce patterns, but Joseph Marie Jacquard's original punched card designs played an important role in the development of computer science as the inspiration for Charles Babbage.

Later, American statistician Herman Hollerith used a variation of Jacquard's punch-card technique to compile the results of the 1890 census. Before the invention of digital input in the mid-20th century, punched cards were the primary mechanism for operating electronic computers. Without Joseph Marie Jacquard's loom, it is impossible to know whether computing science would yield usable technology.

Throughout the early 1800s, the punch-card jacquard loom sequence was such a coveted trade secret that competing textile companies often stole each other's designs. Almost overnight, jacquard looms brought down the price of intricately woven fabrics so much that brocades, brocades, and other types of luxury textiles were accessible to ordinary people for the first time.