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Joseph Marie Jacquard
The Silk Book Goes on Exhibit
February 12, 2019
Last week, the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore put on display a little-known but extraordinary nineteenth-century prayer book woven entirely from silk on a Jacquard loom.
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