Word: jacquard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...instruct" the machine, Babbage borrowed an idea that had just revolutionized the weaving industry. Using a string of cards with strategically placed holes in them, like those in a piano roll, the Frenchman Joseph Marie Jacquard automatically controlled which threads of the warp would be passed over or under with each pass of the shuttle. Babbage planned to use the same technique to program his machine; instead of the positions of threads, the holes in his cards would represent the mathematical commands to the machine. Wrote Babbage's mathematically knowledgeable friend Lady Lovelace, daughter of the poet Lord Byron...
...Legs have learned they can also be funny.) Apart from the possible permutations, the socks come in just about every hue and mix and material imaginable. Some striped jobs look like pousse-café or rugby sweaters gone south; others come in cable knits and heathery cottons. There are jacquard knits, woolens in every shade from bubble-gum pink to moonstone gray and Lurex numbers aglitter with specks of gold and silver...
...redecorating workers' uniforms and baggy pants, overblouses and quilted jackets. The style might be called Mao a la mode. Now, with the fall collections, American couturiers have gone from paddy to palace, digging deep into the treasure chest of Imperial China. Result: high-collared mandarin robes, silk jacquard jackets, sable-lined evening coats of old damask and golden-scrolled pajamas, all done up in poesies of color pirated from the Orient (see color opposite...
Rather it is the wide, colorful butterfly version. A man can decorate his Adam's apple with anything from a variegated stripe on peau de soie to a jacquard design on woven silk. A few of the old bowmen, like Soapy Williams, have made the switch. Having turned in the skinny bows he wore as Michigan's Governor (1949-60), Williams, now a state supreme court justice, sports butterflies instead. He insists that they are "more handsome and comfortable than the other kind...