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Explorations of patterns as knowledge of order

6 • The textile expression gap 7 • Modular patterns: A survey of the textile origin of Neolithic design and its calculational implications

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Coming Soon! Homo Textor: Weaving As (Technical) Mode of Existence

Weaving As (Technical) Mode of Existence

Edited by Ellen Harlizius-Klück Ellen Harlizius-Klück, Julian Rohrhuber, Giovanni Fanfani, Anthony Tuck, Cole Reilly, Cinzia Presti, Joseph Capozzi, Lars Hallnäs, Kalliope Sarri, Adeline Grand-Clément, Annapurna Mamidipudi, Denise Y. Arnold, Ebru Kurbak, Alex McLean, Caroline Radcliffe, Victoria Mitchell, David Griffiths

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Publication date: 2026-06-29
ISBN: 978-1-912729-42-5
DOI: https://doi.org/10.28938/9781912729425

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Cover
List of Figures
Contributors
1 • Introducing homo textor
Part I • Challenges of referencing technology, terminology and form
2 • The technical mode of existence of weaving:Introducing histomorphism
3 • Merge, weave, house, trap: First steps towards a reverse palaeoanthropology of identity concepts
4 • Lost in lexicography? Kaîros as concept of order
5 • Woven witness: Philomela, Procne and visualised narratives through textiles
6 • The textile expression gap
Part II • Explorations of patterns as knowledge of order
7 • Modular patterns: A survey of the textile origin of Neolithic design and its calculational implications
8 • Poikilia, geometry and living patterns in the Greek Archaic and Classical mind
9 • Epistemic, social and material ordering through weaving threads
10 • Comparative reflections on Andean weaving as science
Part III • On missing and seizing textile opportunities
11 • String: Rewiring women and electronics
12 • Algorithmic patterns on the live loom
13 • Embodying patterns of textile machinery: A dialogue
14 • Braiding and dancing: Embodied rhythm and the matter of pattern
15 • Untangling knowledge work by maypole weaving with a Penelopean robot swarm

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