EscapeLoom: Fabricating New Affordances for Hand Weaving

Hand-weaving is a beloved craft in history, holding promise for many opportunities in making from flat sheet fabrics to smart textiles. To afford new weaving experiences, we explore how 3D printed custom weaving tools interplay with different materiality, augmenting the design space of weaving. We propose novel weaving techniques enabled by 3D printed custom tools: (1) water-soluble draft to synchronize design intention and practice, (2) flexible warps to guide complex patterns and to shape resulting object, and (3) rigid global geometry for woven artifacts in 3D. EscapeLoom as a computational design tool enables users to employ various parameters in their computational design, and showcases many creative possibilities that move away from the traditional definition of a loom to dive into what more it can be.

• Publication year

  2021

• Venue

  International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

• Publication date

  2021-05-06

• Fields of study

  Art, Materials Science, Computer Science, Engineering

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1145/3411764.3445600
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