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Flanagan, Mary. Reskinning the Everyday. Ed. Flanagan and Booth. re:skin. MA: MIT Press, 2006.
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• Since the pervasive language reappropriates the jacquard loom to usher in the computer, I will do the opposite and utilize concept of the digital interface to address the jacquard loom and weaving.
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• Marshall McLuhan: Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. 1967. For McLuhan, all media spring forth from the mind as “any extension of ourselves” (McLuhan, 7).
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• “Interfaces are the means through which we take clues and signals in a given culture. Learning new interface systems changes our behavior” (306).
  
 
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Revision as of 21:40, 24 April 2010

“Adam and Eve were undoubtedly our first customers for textiles. The moment they discarded their fig leaf, there was created an immediate market for textile garments” (Blum 4).








Short History: Joseph-Marie Jacquard and His Weaving Automaton

Description of parts and how it works as a weaving medium:

Joseph-Marie Jacquard came up with the idea of putting a pattern into holes on a card to produce a fabric design mechanically (Blum, 77). He housed this mechanism in his mechanized invention of the hand-loom, thus producing a two-part machine conventionally known as the jacquard loom. The jacquard loom consists of two parts: the loom and the jacquard. The loom stands fastened to the floor, with the jacquard frame suspended from the ceiling, resting on heavy beams. The jacquard is responsible for housing the shedding mechanism away from the loom itself and consists of a series of vertical hooks from the bottom of which extend the harness cords together to operate them. The harness, a series of interlaced cords, connects the loom and the jacquard together. The documented dimensions of the jacquard loom in one account comes to "72 square feet of floor space, some 16 feet high and [a weight of] over 4,000 pounds (Blum, 34). The weaving action in both hand and mechanized looms utilize the warp and weft threads as coordinates. The warp threads run parallel to the length of the weave, and the weft threads run parallel to the width of the weave. The jacquard works with the loom by lifting each individual warp and reading the perforated cards. Each perforation corresponds to a single warp thread, and each weft is interlaced either over or under the warp threads depending on the presence or absence of a perforated hole. It is noted that unlike traditional hand weaving, the weft threads cover the entire span of the tapestry, so that the image is 'composed of a matrix of warp and weft' (Stone, 1).

Skin

• Skin (micro, medium)


interface: Flanagan, Mary. Reskinning the Everyday. Ed. Flanagan and Booth. re:skin. MA: MIT Press, 2006. • Since the pervasive language reappropriates the jacquard loom to usher in the computer, I will do the opposite and utilize concept of the digital interface to address the jacquard loom and weaving. • Marshall McLuhan: Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. 1967. For McLuhan, all media spring forth from the mind as “any extension of ourselves” (McLuhan, 7).

• “Interfaces are the means through which we take clues and signals in a given culture. Learning new interface systems changes our behavior” (306).

Touch

• Touch as mediation (the inter-act-ion).


Site

• Site (the macro, container): Performance, text and structure



Self Portrait of Chuck Close on tapestry from a mechanized Jacquard loom, Magnolia Editions