Computers attached to wooden Industrial Revolution-style looms are transforming home hand weavers into savvy professionals. For years hobbyists would weave rugs or scarves for Christmas presents, but ...

The origin story of software takes us back past punch card computers and Babbage’s Difference Engine to a French weaver called Joseph Marie Jacquard. Jacquard created a way to automate mechanical ...

The century-old Jacquard looms lining the factory floor of Scalamandre in Long Island City, Queens, offer as pure an evocation of industrial-era romance as did the Twentieth Century Limited. But ...

Rick Hart's license plate reads "WEAVES," and his wife Linda's reads "LOOMS." The reason: The Harts are the long-term owners and operators of Macomber Looms, a family-founded firm that's been ...