You may have admired the beautiful and colorful linens mostly from France and Belgium that grace tables in magazines and elegant dinner tables. They are likely jacquard fabric. But what is Jacquard, or rather who was he?
The late 18th century saw the industrial revolution replace cottage industries.
In the textile industry looms and weaving machines were introduced to mass produce large quantities of fabric. But the new machines could not compete with skilled manual workers to weave cloth with complex pattern. The Jacquard Loom provided a solution to this problem. see following
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Very cool blog about Avignon and its festival
