Marg Corjay asked James Essinger:

In "Jacquard's Web" each chapter starts with the picture of a different punchcard. If these were set up on a loom, what pattern would they create?

James Essinger Thanks for your question Marg. In fact this was something done by the designer and I am sure was just done to make an interesting illustration and without any other purpose. In any event, I don't have a detailed technical knowledge of the actual configuration of a punched-card Jacquard loom so can't answer your question anyway. But many thanks for it. Best wishes, James

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