A master weaver in 18th-century Lyon, France, Jean-Charles Jacquard was able to fabricate no more than six inches of silk brocade a week. Even that production rate was feasible only with the aid of an ...
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The art of weaving by loom could hold the key to producing stronger and more complex carbon-fibre structures. What does a textile loom invented more than 200 years ago have to do with 21st-century ...