LIVE TELEMETRY
Machine status
STANDBY
PICKS WOVEN000completed insertions
CARD / 1201active card index
CLOTH LENGTH0.0 cmillustrative 4 mm / pick
HOOKS RAISED00 / 16currently selected
ⓘNominal instructional settings
PROGRAMMABLE TEXTILES
Punched-card editor
16 × 12Each column controls a warp hook. Each row is one weft pass. Click a cell to punch or close a hole; gold = raised hook.
Punched / warp raised Closed / warp down
ACTIVE CARD01 / 12Edits update the next read of this card. Existing fabric remains unchanged.
THE MECHANISM EXPLAINED
From card to cloth
The Jacquard attachment turned a design into instructions: perforated cards selected hooks that lifted warp threads so a shuttle could pass through the shed.
A LODZ CONNECTION
Łódź grew into a major European textile manufacturing centre during the nineteenth century. This original educational model takes inspiration from that industrial heritage; it does not reproduce a verified individual loom or workshop floorplan.
MODEL TRANSPARENCY
Mechanism timing is a deterministic, illustrative cycle. Speed is in ideal picks per minute; yarn sag is a stylised function of the tension setting. No force, fatigue, yarn-breakage or production safety certification is modelled.
Historical context and Jacquard mechanics are documented in docs/SOURCES.md.