Le Blon freely admitted that his invention was a variation on brocade weaving; it involved use of a drawloom to create the image. From Wordnik.com. [The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe] Reference
The drawloom mechanism that Le Blon used to make his tapestries could accommodate a large number of extra wefts, the yarns that created the pattern. From Wordnik.com. [The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe] Reference
The visual result of this technical problem, as much as the size limitations imposed by the drawloom and the same inadequate financing and lack of consumer demand that appear to have doomed The Picture Office, may be reasons Le Blon's imitation tapestries were even less successful than his imitation paintings. From Wordnik.com. [The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe] Reference
The full spectrum of weaving techniques is also represented in the collection, from simple plain weave to jacquard and complex drawloom woven pattern. From Wordnik.com. [NYC.com's Exclusive New York City Event Calendar : Art] Reference
We hear nothing further of Jacquard for some years, but in the interval he seems to have prosecuted his improvement in the drawloom for the better manufacture of figured fabrics; for, in. From Wordnik.com. [Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance] Reference
4400 B.C.; (Jacquard drawloom, pattern controlled by punch cards) Jacques de Vaucanson, France, 1745, Joseph-Marie Jacquard, 1801; (flying shuttle) John Kay, England, 1733; (power-driven loom) Edmund Cartwright, England, 1785. From Wordnik.com. Reference
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