Weaving is acknowledged as one of the oldest surviving craft in the world.

Wool available from sheep served as the earliest textile fabric available for spinning into yarn and then for weaving into cloth. Loom originated from crude wooden frame and gradually transformed into the modern sophisticated electronic weaving machine. Nowadays weaving has become a mechanized process though hand weaving is still in practice.

Weaving is mostly done on wool and other synthetic fibers but the jacquard looms are well known machines for making woolen fabrics.

Although the machines were initially small, modern technology has allowed jacquard machine capacity to increase significantly, and single end warp control can extend to more than 10,000 warp ends. This avoids the need for repeats and symmetrical designs and allows almost infinite versatility. The computer-controlled machines significantly reduce the time of production.