Which French inventor's loom used punched cards to control woven patterns?

Which French inventor's loom used punched cards to control woven patterns? Joseph Marie Jacquard developed the mechanism known as the Jacquard loom, patented in 1804.

The loom used a chain of punched cards to select which warp threads should rise for each row of a design. This made elaborate patterns in fabrics such as brocade and damask far easier to reproduce than relying entirely on skilled manual work.

Jacquard built on earlier experiments by Basile Bouchon, Jean-Baptiste Falcon, and Jacques de Vaucanson. Falcon had already used punched cards, but Jacquard improved and consolidated the system into a commercially important machine. Napoleon supported the French textile industry, and Jacquard's loom was demonstrated to him and Empress Joséphine in Lyon in 1805.

A common mix-up is to credit Jacquard with inventing punched-card control from scratch. His major achievement was adapting earlier ideas into a reliable, widely adopted loom. The same principle later influenced Charles Babbage and Herman Hollerith, linking textile automation to the history of computing.