Patience, as the old saw goes, is a virtue – it’s just not one of ours. In our Christmas Day column we mentioned that we were so taken with weaving on the featured children’s loom that we ordered an ...

[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 ...

They say the key to learning something is to have fun while you are learning and you'll remember it better. Today I went On the Road to the Dallas Lighthouse for the Blind to find out about a new tool ...

CHENNAI: It has been three months since 23-year-old Arvind Kumar first got his hands on a weaving loom at the Gurukulam Integrated Centre for Children with Special Needs where he studies. Although ...

Inside her mudbrick home, Paula Fulton sits at one of only a few drawlooms that exist in the country. The 67-year-old is helping to keep the age-old craft of Damask weaving alive. "There might be five ...

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1752: Joseph Marie Jacquard is born in Lyon, France. The weaver and inventor would create the first programmable power loom, revolutionize the weaving industry and lay the foundation for modern data ...

As China’s largest official scientific body, CAST’s claim to the world’s earliest computer is a big deal. It comes at a time ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. This story was updated April 20 at 10:35 p.m. EDT. Tiny wooden figurines have stood upright ...