Man operating machine for punching cards for Jacquard looms. Card for each weft thread of pattern. 400-800 normal, but sometimes 24,000 were worked. From George Dodd 'The Textile Manufactures of Great Britain', London, 1844. Engraving

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Man operating machine for punching cards for Jacquard looms. Card for each weft thread of pattern. 400-800 normal, but sometimes 24,000 were worked. From George Dodd 'The Textile Manufactures of Great Britain', London, 1844. Engraving

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