bpdachilles replied to your post: i just learned a new method of making friendship…

OHHH MY GOd i see diy videos all the time but i dont have the strings so the only time i did it was with yarn and it was So Big

i use embroidery thread (which is Great bc you can separate the threads to make finer work and is v versatile. also bc Embroidery is Amazing but i’m super biased). i used to make friendship bracelets w/ the “traditional” method (bc it was the method you usually find of friendship bracelet-specific websites and tutorials) but even though it’s p easy it uses So Much Thread like one time i did a 12-color striped bracelet and had to work with 1m~1.5m long threads, which can be p intimidating for a beginner!! i had to be very careful to not let the threads tangle and all

but this one tutorial i found today is p easy and so far (i’m still making a Test Bracelet) it doesn’t seem to use up so much thread. i’m using the method shown in these three videos and even though you have to pay attention to the thread color and order it isn’t complex at all. 

but you could use yarn w/ the finger weaving technique on these vids to make a belt or smth like that! maybe even a scarf if you’ve practiced it enough. it seems v practical, i’m def going to test out these possibilities

shannybasar:

I expected to learn about art at the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition but not about the role of a weaving loom in the development of computers.

In an essay about Grayson Perry’s series of tapestries, The Vanity of Small Differences, Adam Lowe explains that in 1804 Frenchman Joseph-Marie Jacquard invented a loom that used punched cards to program the pattern being weaved:

These cards formed a chain that was inserted into the loom, allowing some hooks to pass through the punched holes and therefore determining the movement of the warp threads. When one row was finished, the next chain of cards was inserted, and so on until the weaving was complete.

By 1812, just eight years later, 11,000 Jacquard looms were in operation across France.

Charles Babbage, the English mathematician, saw the loom and realised the same process could be used for calculations. As a result Babbage developed a calculating machine with Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron’s daughter. Lowe says: 

In 1834 she wrote: “Thus not only the mental and the material, but the theoretical and the practical in the mechanical world, are brought into more intimate and effective connection with each other – we may say most aptly, that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraic patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.”

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