Stevengraph

Stevengraph
/stee"veuhn graf', -grahf'/, n.
a small picture woven in colored silk thread: introduced in 1879 and mass-produced on a Jacquard-type loom.
Also, Stevensgraph /stee"veuhnz graf', -grahf'/.
[after Thomas Stevens (1828-88), English silk-weaver, who developed a mechanical technique to produce the pictures; see -GRAPH]

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