TYPES OF LOOMS:
- handlooms: manual control of warp and weft
- punchcard looms: drum or continuous,
fixed, punched pattern controlling the shafts
- digital looms: shaft is controlled directly from a computer
WEAVING DICTIONARY
#inspiration: DIY LOOMS (punchcard or digital)
#inspiration: OTHER RELEVANT DIY MACHINES
Wintergatan's hand crank music box
PixelWeaver
Flipdot Displays
lego jaquard
Handbook of Weaving (Eng)
digital loom by Kurt Shaefer
Hollerith tabulating machine
Leibnitz calculator
Pascal calculator
Vaucanson
Analytical Engine (never built)
japanese toy weaving machine
on gitlab
tablet weaving:cards do not controll the pattern with
mediation but the warp in a direct way
cardpunch emulator
kariotic's weaving codes machine
mechanical punch card reader
Penelope Project
soundweaving
velemi textil (in hungarian): how textile became a subversive medium in late socialism in hungary
THE WEBMACHINE
an interactive online piece
on the forgotten female side of computer history
click here for theory highlighs >>
# punchcards
#weaving
The Webmachine is the manifestation of an alternative new media machine, a piece that translates binary text to visual code simulating the technology of punch-card tablet weaving. An imaginary archaeology of the computer invented by female cultural tradition to replace ‘male machines’, that merges the logic of punch cards, weaving patterns and computing.
Infinite Weft
webmachine on github
created for Digital Power 2020
hosted on a
served through pagekite
with the help of maxigas