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For more than two centuries, Jacquard weaving has stood as one of the most demanding crafts in textiles. Turning an image into a woven Jacquard meant weeks of painstaking technical work: building the weave structures, assigning them to each part of the design, balancing the construction, preparing the production file. It was the domain of master weavers, and rightly respected as such. Pointcarre Jacquard Maker changes that, not by replacing the craft, but by opening it to everyone.

From weeks to seconds

When Joseph-Marie Jacquard introduced his automated loom in 1801, he transformed weaving forever, letting a single mechanism reproduce patterns that had once demanded enormous manual effort. Jacquard Maker carries that same spirit into the AI era. What once took master weavers weeks can now be achieved in seconds.

The principle is strikingly simple. Jacquard Maker turns any image into a complete, ready to weave Jacquard in a single step. You choose your yarn quality, cotton, linen, silk or many others, and the artificial intelligence handles the rest, applying the right weave structures and densities to match the fabric you have in mind. The technical construction that used to define the job is taken care of automatically, so you can focus entirely on the creative result.

Three things Jacquard Maker does instantly

The first is image transformation. Any picture becomes a professional, mill ready Jacquard design, with no manual setup. The second is color. Jacquard Maker generates as many colorways as you need in just a few clicks, letting you explore variations of the same Jacquard at speed, ideal for presenting a full seasonal collection to a client in a single sitting. The third is the technical sheet. Complete, production ready specifications are exported in one click, bridging the gap between a creative image and an accurate, mill ready Jacquard file.

Preserving tradition, enabling innovation

It would be easy to mistake this for a tool that pushes the craft aside. It does the opposite. Jacquard weaving has always been a blend of artistry and technical mastery, and Jacquard Maker honours that legacy while making it more accessible than ever. It removes the barrier that kept Jacquard design in the hands of a few specialists, and hands the creative possibilities to designers, artists and manufacturers who can now explore freely without abandoning the essence of the craft.

There is a sustainability dimension too. By collapsing time intensive processes into a single intuitive step, and by letting designers validate and vary their work on screen, Jacquard Maker reduces the trial and error and the physical sampling that have always weighed on textile production. Less waste, less time, more creativity.

Built to fit your production

Jacquard Maker is designed to slot into the real world of weaving. It works with the industry standard Jacquard systems already on the factory floor, including Stäubli and Vandewiele, so there is no barrier to adoption. The output is not a pretty picture, it is a genuine, mill ready Jacquard file that integrates into existing production workflows.

And from 2027, up and running in minutes

Pointcarre is taking accessibility one step further. From 2027, Jacquard Maker will ship with a QuickStart program that lets you put this revolutionary module to work within minutes. No long onboarding, no steep learning curve, just open it and weave. It is the logical conclusion of the whole idea behind Jacquard Maker: the most advanced Jacquard technology in the world, made simple enough for anyone to use.

Weaving for everyone

This is what sets Jacquard Maker apart, and as of today, Pointcarre stands alone in offering it. No other textile CAD turns an image into a complete, ready to weave Jacquard, with colorways and technical sheets, in a single AI driven step. Two centuries after Jacquard mechanised the loom, Pointcarre is doing for Jacquard design what he did for Jacquard weaving: taking something extraordinary and putting it within everyone's reach.