Ten sets of Jacquard cards, for use with model of Jacquard ribbon loom, stored in a wooden box, by James Heywood, Coventry, England.
Chain or bundle of Jacquard cards, for use with model of Jacquard ribbon loom, with metal rods on one end and tied together by string. Includes a paper cover sheet, folded, with '1894 Bath Exhibition No 11 No 18' and boat image printed in red on inside and sample of ribbon woven with this pattern attached.
Collection of Jacquard cards, for use with model of Jacquard ribbon loom, and sheaf of green paper flyers reading 'Specimen of Ribbon woven in a minature figure loom'.
Wooden storage case for Jacquard cards relating to model of Jacquard ribbon loom
Chain or bundle of Jacquard cards, for use with model of Jacquard ribbon loom, marked 'No. 9' in red on front, with metal rods on one end and tied together by string. attached at one end by metal rods and string. Includes a paper cover sheet, folded, with 'Success to the Town No 15' and dragon motif printed in red on inside, and sample of ribbon woven with this pattern attached.
Chain or bundle of Jacquard cards, for use with model of Jacquard ribbon loom, marked 'No 6' in red on front, with metal rods on one end and tied together by string. Includes a paper cover sheet, folded, with cat placed above elephant and castle motif printed on inside, and sample of ribbon woven with this pattern attached.
Chain or bundle of Jacquard cards, for use with model of Jacquard ribbon loom, marked 'No 6' in red on front, with metal rods on one end.
To make patterned cloth, a loom weaves together different-coloured threads into a design. In a Jacquard mechanism, the instructions for which threads to weave in each part of the design are contained in a series of cards with holes punched in them. The punched cards control which threads in the warp are raised, a job previously done by a weaver’s assistant.
These cards were use with what is, or was, reputed to be the smallest working model figure loom in the World. The designer and maker of the model was J. Heywood of Coventry and Wooten-under-Edge; the inventor of the Self-Adding Cylinder for the Jacquard machine. The ribbons are figured so that two series of weft threads are used. The lower shuttle forms with the warp the groundwork of the ribbon. The other series of silks mounted at the top, form the design. A jacquard machine at the top of the loom frame, controls the shedding of the warp threads for each pick. The most noteworthy aspect of the loom is that the shuttles are always under control of two small-geared pinions per shuttle, which gear with pin teeth formed on the shuttles.
Paper cover sheet associated with bundle of jacquard cards. Sheet is folded into three sections, with cat placed above elephant and castle motif printed on inside, and sample of ribbon woven with this pattern attached.
Two pieces of string used to tie up bundle of Jacquard cards.
Chain or bundle of Jacquard cards, for use with model of Jacquard ribbon loom, marked 'No 4' in red on front, with metal rods on one end and tied together by string. Includes a paper cover sheet, folded, with floral motif and 'No 4' printed on inside, and sample of ribbon woven with this pattern attached.
Chain or bundle of Jacquard cards, for use with model of Jacquard ribbon loom, marked 'No 7' in red on front, with metal rods on one end and tied together by string. Includes a paper cover sheet, folded, with floral motif and 'No 7' printed on inside, and sample of ribbon woven with this pattern attached.
Chain or bundle of Jacquard cards, for use with model of Jacquard ribbon loom, marked 'No 8' in red on front, with metal rods on one end and tied together by string. Includes a paper cover sheet, folded, with coat of arms motif and 'No 8' printed on inside, and sample of ribbon woven with this pattern attached.
