Last Week we visited the Slater Mill museum in Pawtucket, which is considered the “birthplace of industrial design.” Of the many machines and tools on display the one that interested me the most, in terms of my studio project, was their looms. The purpose of a loom is to weave cloth. It works by having long threads, called warps, and interweaving it with threads going the perpendicular, wefts. The wefts go back and forth along the piece and every time it reaches one end a different set of warps are lifted up by gates, sandwiching the wefts into place. This machine relates to my project because it is takes strands of material and by organization gives it structure. I was also instead in the role of the gates and how they determine the weave. I plan to use the logic of looms to create more calculated decisions for in my studio work.
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