Word: jacquard
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...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...
...intricately patterned fabric. The puzzled operator peered over, beneath and behind the row of darting needles, looking for a chain of perforated cards. There were no cards. Enthusiastic demonstrators of this new robot, called the Lefier machine, claimed that it was the longest advance in pattern reproduction since Jacquard...
This was high praise indeed. The loom in which Joseph Marie Jacquard made practical the ideas of several 18th Century inventors was declared public property in France in 1806, and Jacquard was rewarded with royalties, a pension, a statue. In making fabrics with woven-in designs, it is required that every time a thread of weft is passed across the warp, certain needles be lifted from the row, corresponding to the cross-section of the design at that point. Jacquard solved this with a series of perforated cards permitting some needles to pass through the holes and stopping others. Jacquard...