Item 1: Designing room for cloth to be woven on Jacquard Looms- Silk Industry, So. Manchester, Conn., U.S.A., 1914

Black-and-white image shows a room where two men and a woman work at desks with large designs. More designs are hung in the room. Text on reverse: "Designing Room for Cloth to be Woven on Jacquard Looms - Silk Industry, So. Manchester, Conn., U.S.A. This view shows a Jacquard designing room where the designs for cloth woven on a Jacquard loom are made. Incidentally, it should be noted that the invention of the Jacquard loom, both because of its ingenuity and because of its far-reaching effects, is probably the most important invention in the textile industry. The machine is named after Joseph Marie Jacquard who first made use of the principle. Jacquard was born in Lyons, France, on the seventh of July, 1752; he died in 1834. By the use of the Jacquard looms very elaborate patterns for figured or brocaded goods with a large variety of weaves may be produced. In this picture we get a glance into a corner of the Jacquard designing room of the Cheney Bros. plant in South Manchester, Conn. A few of the numerous varied designs are to be seen spread out near the group of expert designers seen at work in this room. The design is first made of the proper size and then transferred to paper ruled in squares. Each square represents the intersection of a warp and a filling thread. From the way in which the design falls on these squares the card cutter can tell how to punch the cards which control the motion of the warp thread." Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company. 17.75 x 8.75 cm. Copy A.

Format: Stereoptic print.