#also def have more jacquard stuff floating around somewhere lol

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heeyyyy do u have any texts on like. backstrap loom weaving?? or kumihimo. or actually that 15 years worth of jacquard weaving. i wanna READ

mmmmm i'm loving these options! i don't have anything on backstrap weaving handy unfortunately but it might be buried in a drive...

kumihimo is a weird one bc, like lots of traditional japanese fiber art, there's a weird dollar store version that white women have decided is the same thing... i went on a kumihimo search fest a while back and got bogged down in the whitelady hobbyist stuff but i love this video of the process

and for the jacquard reading list!! i'm literally gonna lift citations from a paper i wrote a few years ago:

- Becker, John. Pattern and Loom: A Practical Study of the Development of Weaving Techniques in China, Western Asia, and Europe. (NIAS Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, 2014). (VERY detailed resource recreating historical textiles with diagrams, not jacquard but figurative weaving, its precursor)

- Harlizius-Klück, Ellen. (2017) “Weaving as Binary Art and the Algebra of Patterns.” TEXTILE, 15 (2), 176-197 (i really recommend this one because it busts the myth of the jacquard loom as both a feat of western minds and the precursor to the computer)

- Hooper, Luther. Hand Loom Weaving. (Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd. 1920). (if you ever needed to know literally anything about weaving you could possibly ask except for computer stuff bc it was published first in like the 1800s)

- Ng, Frankie, and Jiu Zhou. Innovative Jacquard Textile Design Using Digital Technologies. (The Textile Institute, Woodhead Publishing, 2013). (digital jacquard stuff!! love!!! i worked as the digital loom technician in school for a year)

- Pye, David. The Nature of Art and Workmanship. (Cambridge University Press, 1968) (this one isn't even about weaving specifically, but absolutely foundational for craftspeople on the theory of 'craft'. i can provide a pdf of this one if anyone wants <3)

#replies #u caught me without my full collection of resources i will get back 2 u on the backstrap thing #also def have more jacquard stuff floating around somewhere lol #general fiber tag #thank u i enjoyed this one <3