Jacquard Fabric

Joseph Marie Charles  (called or nicknamed) Jacquard 1752 –1834) was a French weaver and merchant. He played an important role in the development of the earliest programmable loom (the "Jacquard loom"), which in turn played an important role in the development of other programmable machines, such as an early version of digital compiler used by IBM to develop the modern day computer.
Something for Mono Monday theme -18th C inventions.