Tutorials

Tutorials offer step by step instructions to help you build your own workspace.

Data Weaving

Use data to create and manipulate drafts.

Uses Operations

undulate weftsvariable width samplervariable length samplerfill

Using Drafts as Graphics

Strategies for using interesting looking drafts as graphics in cloth.

Uses Operations

bitfieldstretchinterlace weftsfill

Blend Colors with Layers

Blend warp and weft colors using by assigning different sets of colors to different layers.

Uses Operations

layer notationsatinstretch

Figured Weaving

Create drafts by filling regions of an image with shaded weave structures.

Uses Operations

image mapshaded satinrectangle

Generating Threading Sequences

Create, modify and play with drawdowns created by threadings composed of different blocks.

Uses Operations

pattern across widthrotatemake drawdown from threading, tieup, and treadling

Generate Drafts to Weave on a TC2

A simple dataflow for testing structures on that can be woven on a TC2 Digital Jacquard Loom.

Uses Operations

waffletabbyrectangleselvedge

Generate Drafts to Weave on a CompuDobby

Using the Draft Editor to generate .WIF files for weaving on an AVL CompuDobby loom.

Lattice Structures

In collaboration with Elizabeth Meiklejohn

Explores multi-layered structures that interlock into a lattice.

Uses Operations

layer notationvariable width samplersplice in pics

Moisture Activated Shape Changing Cloth

In collaboration with Kathryn Walters Deanna Gelosi

Explores how to combine different S and Z twisting yarns to create texture effects

Uses Operations

assign draft to systemsvariable width samplerglitch satin

Force Sensing Cloth

Our design features the use of a woven pocket structure filled with conductive felt.

Uses Operations

assign draft to systemsoverlay multiple