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Martin Laugesen
Digital Weaving
Digital Weaving explores how using digital fabrication methods and algorithmic processes to design patterns can improve our understanding of both weaving and computing.
Woven and digital images can be broken down into the same base structure, a grid of 1s and 0s. This is not a novel observation, but a core part of both of their histories. Jacquard looms allowed for complex patterns to be encoded into punch cards, a system that would later be used in early computing.
Digital looms today accept image files such as BMP or JPG, interpreting each pixel similar to the holes in a punch card of a Jacquard loom, however the design process generally continues to be done manually. An algorithmic approach, combined with digital fabrication, like thermal printers, allows for initial exploration of patterns at a lower time and material investment.
