jacquard

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Examples

• Think a sari in silk crepe paired with a logoed jacquard mesh-knit shirt.

• Purple pleated skirts turned sporty thanks to flap pockets; jacquard prints enlivened wide-leg trousers.

• I like to travel to fabric fairs—finding that leaf jacquard for a jacket and coat for fall was not easy.

• The Jacquard apparatus achieved the flat patterns, and the new “Dentellière” has perfected the art.

• Jacquard looms are sometimes to be seen at fairs and expositions weaving handkerchiefs with some picture design.

• American manufacturers are using the Jacquard loom, a Lyonnais invention.

• It is to Jacquard that it owes its silk manufacture, and a statue of him properly graces the city.

• When you say a woman doesn't invent anything, I ask, Who invented the Jacquard loom that wove every stitch you wear?