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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;PepperAnna, post: 4540043, member: 17332&quot;]It is jacquard woven. Mid 1800s. The complex design was completed by using punched cards and stringing them together. This string of cards is fed into a dobby mechanism at the top of the loom and dictates which shafts are raised and at which time. That is how the pattern is generated.&nbsp; I saw one of these machines in action at a Weaving museum in the Netherlands. The punch card idea was also used to program early computers. Maybe the pattern was made to look Indian for the British market, when Orientalism was taking hold.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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