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I feel like I'm falling into a post holiday depression. Didn't leave the house at all today. It was cold and gray. Now, rain. It feels like the cold has gotten into my bones. But, it's too early in the season.
Playing with weft bundling and color variations. Little cardboard looms are great for working up samples to test your colors before going to the big loom. I use the dent spacing from the loom I'm going to work on to get my sett.
some of my favorite woven tapestries, by Cecilia Blomberg:
Point Defiance Steps
Mates
Rising Tides
Vashon Steps
Rejoice with me!
For I have acquired equipment that enhances the functionality of two different crafting devices!
Specifically, I bought a second-heddle-block for my rigid heddle loom, which will allow me to weave new and interesting kinds of cloth! And I bought a spinning wheel repair kit, so I can refurbish my new-to-me spinning wheel!
Rejoice! For now more things will be made!
(I am soooooo thrilled 😁 )
I have a knitting machine like that one and a stack of very stiff old punch cards that might be older than me. The punch cards are great for repeating patterns like that pretty basket-weave diamond design (I think I've actually used a copy of that card), but not so great for long non-repeating series like computer code.
I also weave on an 8-shaft loom, which isn't quite as complex as a Jacquard loom with punch cards, but still is basically using a series of binary switches to encode... pretty designs!
One warp/weft intersection is a lot smaller than a knit stitch with sock yarn at 7 st/in. I think with this yarn I've got about 20 threads per inch.
It might be easier to weave Doom than knit it. Let me do some math. On this loom you could only get 8 bits per weft thread, but at 20 threads per inch that's 160 bits per inch (of length, your width wouldn't matter because you'd just be repeating the same 8 bits all the way across)... Hmm. 12,208 feet (2.3 miles) in length, width anywhere from ½" to 18." It's more information-dense than the 7x7 stitches per sq in of knitted sock-weight, but having only the first ½" of width be relevant means it's a lot longer. A ½" by 2.3 mile ribbon is not terribly useful. Technically it's 509 ft² so it'd be smaller than the 3322 ft² knitted blanket but it'd just be a mess.
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.
✨A woven yarn tapestry of the Shire✨
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.
some of my favorite woven tapestries, by Cecilia Blomberg:
Point Defiance Steps
Mates
Rising Tides
Vashon Steps
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.
Le stage “La tapisserie simple”
2015
C’est mon premier stage de la tapisserie à Taïwan. Quelle joie de partager mes connaissances et les techniques de la tapisserie avec les professeurs du lycée de Banciao! Je suis vraiment ravi de vous avoir rencontrés. Le tissage, soit à la mains, soit en machine, a été une activité traditionnelle, et puis, après la deuxième guerre mondiale, une activité économiquement fondamentale à Taïwan. Jusqu’à aujourd’hui, il y a encore un dernier atelier de la tapisserie à Taïchung faisant autre fois les belles tissage pour des Japonais... C’est franchement très dommage de perdre la connection avec cet art extraordinaire. Allons-y, on va tisser!
隨手可得的掛毯編織
2015
回國後的第一個掛毯編織課程。感謝板中的邀請，讓我能用簡單的方式與各位分享關於法國掛毯編織的知識與技術。臺灣一直都有許多不同織作，如原住民族的織布與戰後的布料工廠等等，可惜接觸、瞭解的人日益稀少。其實織布可以是既簡單又有趣的，沒有大家想像的那麼難。別猶豫了，藝起來織布吧！
Un petit souvenir
Alfonso Y.J. P. Luhvinchject
Un aller-retour égale une passée.
À gauche: Trrrr dot dot dot...
À droite: Trrrr dot dot dot...
Et on passe des années.
小回憶
婁文越
一來一回才是完整的一趟。
從左邊唰啪啪過，
還要從右邊刷啪啪過。
如人生一樣過。
It has been a very long time that I didn't have a tapestry project.
While re-visiting the Jean-Lurçat contemporary tapestry museum after several years yesterday, I took advantage of their free weaving frames and enjoyed quickly doing some exercises.
What a great moment !