1.   Cards are used as the medium which translates the pattern into a mechanical function on the Jacquard loom.

2.   Holes in each card representing one row of tufts in the carpet, instruct the Jacquard loom which colour to weave.

3.   The Jacquard loom.

4.   Think the cotton gin and the Jacquard loom were noted innovations in the fabric industry?

5.   Two years ago, Catherine Moutet singlehandedly restarted the business by bringing in a jacquard loom that makes complicated patterns, and by finding the appropriate designers and employees.