#Weaving Technology

[goodoldbandit]

Weaving Success: The Inspiring Story of Suzuki's Beginnings

https://gob.stayingalive.in/revving-up-knowledge-unveil/weaving-success-the-inspiri.html Discover how Suzuki’s journey from producing weaving looms to becoming an automotive giant showcases innovation and resilience. #Suzuki #Innovation The Humble Beginnings of Suzuki Innovating from the Start Suzuki’s story began with a vision and a loom. In 1909, Michio Suzuki founded the Suzuki Loom Works…

[tweedlestrove]

this is a machine that was used to punch the cards for the jacquard looms circa the 1800s! Below, there's a demonstration of this technology in action:

[dramatic-dolphin]

one time i was at a folk museum and got talking with an older lady folk artist (like late 60s/70s) who was doing bead weaving, and she told me that she's been working here for a while, but only started bead weaving recently, because they asked her "hey, do you know bead weaving? if yes, can you demonstrate it for the visitors?" and she was just like "yeah, of course i know how! no problem :)" and then went home and typed "bead weaving tutorial for beginners" into youtube.

i left that conversation with a lot of bead weaving tips, but the real lesson i learned was "lie to your employers, the skill can't be THAT hard to master." ❤️

[oneminutefiftysixseconds]

THE MAN-MACHINE

[cryinglawstudent]

The wheel is weaving not very nicely for me today

[arspoeticamaia]

Your memory will be preserved in jpegs and archived chat messages.

[blistexenthusiast]

Kayla Mattes, Shadowbanned

[fictionadventurer]

I love setting fantasy around and after WWI. It's such a good combination. WWI was a loss-of-innocence on a societal level. There had been this assumption that technology and progress could solve all our problems and make us better people, and then WWI comes and shows us horribly and violently that it does not, and then in the aftermath we have to deal with what this means for us as a society and as people.

Throwing magic into that is a perfect thematic fit, because magic and technology are basically the same thing--people trying to impose their will upon nature. It can do good things or terrible things, but the issue is not necessarily the technology or the magic itself, but the hearts of the people using it, the cost to bring it about, the drain on resources and the effect on the environment and people. In the aftermath of a major conflict, we have to take a long hard look at ourselves and the choices we've made and will continue to make. Are the benefits worth the cost? What is the true nature of man--can we ever trust ourselves again? Have we progressed to a better stage of humanity or reverted back to beasts? There is just so much to explore there. The WWI connection has been built into the genre ever since Tolkien, and it continues to be relevant to our modern world.

[getbreaded]

Some snippets of this past week.

I've been crocheting and coding a pomodoro timer page, but not much else...

Gonna try to rest as much as possible before the start of the new semester! All my grades are out except one, and I'm pretty happy with the results so far :)

Hope everyone has been doing alright!

[m0thb1tch]

Are y'all familiar with The Woven Book of Hours? This is a prayer book woven in silk BY LOOM in the 1880s. More specifically, the punchcard-programmed Jacquard loom, making it the first digitally produced book. It is estimated that it took 200,000-500,000 punchcards to weave it.

[memoriesofthingspast]

🦾🌻✨🌊

[queen-vv]

Yay I did it I opened my gundam wip and edited a sentence and fixed some syntax

[perikrone]

The more I learn about fiber art, the more enthralled I am

An art both older than all recorded history, and surprisingly young (Some knitting techniques are less than ~100 years old)

An art that was the first thing we industrialized, produced mechanically on a dizzying scale, but also with countless forms that can only be made by human hands

An art that seems absolutely bottomless, and yet is among the most accessible

It's a joy to know the craft, and to be in community with the craftspeople

To be completely honest, it holds a lot of the same joy, curiosity, and depth that computing and electronics held for a younger me. No major surprise, since fiber art technology is also the basis of so much computing technology.

It's been a way to connect to my own femininity, transfemininity, and sexuality, with the history of women, trans women, and sapphics being interwoven (heh) over and over again with fiber art.

And it's been a way to connect with a cultural heritage that has been ripped away by colonialism. I don't know my own past more than 100 years ago except in broad genetic brush-strokes, and my own ancestors erased or had erased for them their own cultural history in acquiescence or subjugation to whiteness.

But I can be sure that they practiced fiber arts, and those broad genetic brush-strokes can even generate a short list of forms they must have practiced.

[glitch--stitch]

I am currently making one right now, I am carrying my color on the backside, using a 3.5mm hook with 4 weight yarn, and I used stitchfiddle to generate my qr code and I am doing 2 DCs per pixel

Go here to learn how to make your very own crochetable qr code

[eelmachine]

i weaving basket out of brambles much joy and fun to be had! give it a try some tim e

[makereadgrow]

We wouldn't have tech without textiles

So the other night during D&D, I had the sudden thoughts that:

1) Binary files are 1s and 0s

2) Knitting has knit stitches and purl stitches

You could represent binary data in knitting, as a pattern of knits and purls…

You can knit Doom.

However, after crunching some more numbers:

The compressed Doom installer binary is 2.93 MB. Assuming you are using sock weight yarn, with 7 stitches per inch, results in knitted doom being…

3322 square feet

Factoring it out…302 people, each knitting a relatively reasonable 11 square feet, could knit Doom.