[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osCPWMyJOj8&w=470] The Jacquard loom, invented in the early 1800s, used punched cards to manufacture relatively complex ...

These shuttle looms were used to make denim from the earliest days of Levi Strauss & Co. in the 1800s through the Rebel Without a Cause era, when cool cats like James Dean and Marlon Brando helped ...

The seemingly humble flying-shuttle loom, originally built to make the weaving of wide cloth faster and easier, stood at the threshold between the largely handcrafted world of the past and the ...