Reposted from the Then Try This Notes blog.
We acquired an eight-shaft table loom for the algorithmic pattern project, and have been exploring 'crackle weave' patterns, where a threading pattern is created by repeating a small motif is repeated along a path, with intermediate steps added according to rules. During this activity Alex also visiting our friends in the Wearable Senses Lab in Eindhoven, working with the researchers there to explore shaft weaving patterns on the TC/2 prototyping loom.
Alex has been blogging through the experience:
- Exploring 8-shaft weaving - reflecting on preparing the warp, threading the loom, simulating an 8-shaft loom on the TC/2 in Eindhoven, and the start of an interest in crackle weave
- Bitfield weaving - a brief link to the 'bitfield' operation in Laura Devendorf's AdaCAD weaving software
- More crackle weave - a closer look at the rules of crackle weave, and a new AdaCAD operation for it
- Warping catastrophe - a reflection on the fragility of order in weaving, and learning from errors
- Order and tension - more on preparing the loom - (successfully) warping and threading a self-designed crackle weave
- Textile dimensions - finally getting to weave the crackle weave (and getting a bit overcome with it, judging by the blog title), exploring and trying to understand the many surprises it turned up, and finishing with a link to a short film "Ulaṭbānsi | Zigzagging" about weaving, music and philosophy around handweaving and handweavers in India.
