Two Weavers | Two Looms
Two birds living together, each the friend of the other, perch upon the same tree / Of these two, one eats the fruits of the tree, but the other simply looks on without eating. Translation to...
Category: Ancient weaving
Looms in Motion: A one-week PENELOPE event
Interested in remotely controlling our robots? Keen on listening to patterns? Curious to see how Penelope’s unweaving might have looked like? Visit our looms-in-motion.eu platform for information and participation related to our nine projects. You can...
Indian Weaving in the time of COVID-19
These are the stark images from India that fill news feeds today: The exodus of India’s migrant workers, from its mammoth cities, enduring hunger and despair to get home, in the wake of the COVID-19 lockdown....
A report from HOMO TEXTOR
WITH ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS FROM GIOVANNI, ALEX, ANNAPURNA, AND ELLEN The notion of homo textor refers to three dimensions of human beings where weaving (texere in Latin) is at stake. First of all, textile production is one...
Live coding the warp-weighted loom
Live coding has developed into an international community of practice over the past two decades, where artists make live use of programming languages to express and create time-based works, predominantly at the fringes of electronic music....
‘Weave, sweet phorminx’: the sound of imagery and the imagery of sound in Pindar
The notions of ancient soundscape and auditory culture have met in recent years with growing scholarly interest: classicists have fruitfully engaged with the (reconstructed or evoked) sonic spectrum of particular environments, religious practices, and poetic texts...
HOMO TEXTOR Conference
This conference will bring together philosophers, artists, technologists, classicists, textile experts, anthropologists, and historians of technology to discuss weaving as a technical mode of existence. The two day conference will take place at the Kerschensteiner Kolleg...
Woven cosmos and patterned number
Ancient textile technology and the emergence of Greek philosophy (Part 1) One of the research questions grounding the PENELOPE project has to do with the nature and the extent of ancient textile technology’s contribution to the...
AWAY | TAKIY — Raise the Curtain for Weaving
In September 2018 the Bolivian weaver and media artist Sandra de Berduccy will visit the PENELOPE Team in munich. She will work in the PENELOPE laboratory and produce an interactive textile installation while the Project team...
Further attempts at untangling tablet weave
One of the great unknowns following the first weavecoding project was the nature of tablet weave. Other than a few primitive attempts that didn’t work in all cases and lead us to further questions, modelling tablet...
New Project in the PENELOPE Lab
This Friday morning a new weaving project took off in our laboratory at the Museum for Plaster Casts: Sylvia Wiechmann, a weaver who founded the Damascweaving workshop in Munich twenty years ago, now weaves coptic tunics...
Re-thinking textile imagery through gender: a workshop in Leicester
The study of ancient weaving and its technology can benefit enormously from the growing interest in the materiality and contexts of textile production in antiquity: a vast array of cross-disciplinary research in the last ten years...
