The Future Looms - Holes Linings Threads

The Future Looms - Holes Linings Threads

Production country: 
gb
Year: 
1998
Edition: 
1999
Format: 
net

In Holes Linings Threads, the past and the future are woven together: women's history in the textile industry, the advancement of information and technology. And the project explores the relationship between textile production, with it’s punch card operation, and the computers around the world, powered by switches. One of the first practical applications of switch technology as input devices took place in the textile industry. Looms were controlled by an arrangement of perforated cards in a moving loop.

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