HOW TO - Riley Cox
very cool and clever card-driven small jacquard loom build
Mika Tajima » Negative Entropy
"These works are simultaneously images and material records of their own making. Field recordings of production sounds were made at each site, then transmuted into digital spectrogram images using a linguistic audio software. Color was assigned to the wave forms, then translated into a pattern by a weaving technician to create a Jacquard fabric."
For Your Reference: Threading Letters - Letterform Archive
"a selection of reference books showcasing techniques and designs for embroidering and weaving letters" some truly gorgeous stuff in here
Yarn Lab: Reflections on Absorbency | Handwoven
some good tips on weave structure and yarns for towels
LOOMIA Soft Electronics | E-textiles
interesting flexible circuit technology for integration with textiles
Experimental Textiles - Fall 2022 | Experimental Textiles
so coooool
Terrain Hat Generator
Dead white man's clothes: How fast fashion is turning parts of Ghana into toxic landfill - ABC News
well this is fucking horrifying. '“We call them tentacles,” Ricketts said. “When you see them wash up from the sea they’re very long, you know they can be eight feet to 30 feet (2.4m to 9.1m), and sometimes three feet wide,” she said. “When we’ve done clean-ups here, we’ve been digging 15 feet and still find tangles of clothing.”'