Weaving

Two really great talks about weaving from Lea Albaugh

An in-depth, highly motivational introduction to weaving for a CS audience:

http://lea.zone/blog/weaving-notation-at-strange-loop/

And “Investigating Underdetermination Through Interactive Computational Handweaving”:

https://vimeo.com/563874596

The second one is very informative to the live coding field, I think… Here’s the full paper:

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Some astonishing work in Complexity 2022 an exhibition of the work of members of “complex weavers”.

Two particularly ‘algorithmic’ examples:


Game of Crones by Alice Schlein
“I am amazed at the design possibilities of rearranging the threads on a shaft loom and seeing how changes in one part of a design cascade into other parts, the permutations continuing in an endless loop. This to me is magic.”


BoroBoro Ori Yardage by Beth Ross Johnson
“… I wove the yardage in such a way that it looks random, but I was actually keeping track of the different pattern areas and balancing lights and darks. The ‘stitched’ patterns are woven in a supplementary warp and weft technique called Sashiko ori. I have been researching this technique for the last couple of years using Japanese and Peruvian sources.”

The first one is too similar to bitfields for that to be coincidental, and the pseudo-stitchwork in the second one is lovely in how you can visually see the offset rhythms of the warp and weft come together to form different two dimensional patterns.

Stumbled to this massive archive of weaving related stuff:

On-Line Digital Archive of Documents on Weaving and Related Topics (arizona.edu)

webdocs folder contains many really interesting short descriptions on different algorithmic patterns, but theres also over 400 books and 4000 other newspaper articles. :sweat_smile:

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Don’t know where to post this. Currently visiting southern Tunisia and thinking of Alpaca / Persephone project when seeing these amazing patterns on historical woven carpets in Lella Hadria museum. The captions are not too precise, but I can say some of these patterns are of Berber origin. Again some area of expertise for an ethnomathemathic approach to geometry/ symbolism… The patterns of the Djerbian jewels are also very striking, seemingly they have been preserved through deep time by the local Jewish community.



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An expansive essay from Jakob Jennerholm Hammar on Weaving

With some interesting experiments in time-based weaving drafts here:
https://wyrddrafts.org/index.html