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November 24, 2015 6:11 AM Subscribe
Faig Ahmed mixes traditional carpet-weaving with 3D sculpting and computer display glitches. It really ties the centuries together.
Amazing, and I want one of those rugs yesterday.
posted by Room 641-A at 6:29 AM on November 24, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Room 641-A at 6:29 AM on November 24, 2015 [1 favorite]
Love these.
posted by octothorpe at 6:29 AM on November 24, 2015
posted by octothorpe at 6:29 AM on November 24, 2015
It literally makes me angry that I cannot have this in my house right now.
posted by Rock Steady at 6:39 AM on November 24, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by Rock Steady at 6:39 AM on November 24, 2015 [2 favorites]
It really ties the ROM together.
posted by blueberry at 6:42 AM on November 24, 2015 [10 favorites]
posted by blueberry at 6:42 AM on November 24, 2015 [10 favorites]
Well blueberry, after all, it's multi-threaded.
posted by gwint at 6:43 AM on November 24, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by gwint at 6:43 AM on November 24, 2015 [3 favorites]
Interesting to note; textile weaving is actually really closely related to computer programming.
I'm sure someone will clarify the source for me, but I recall some anecdote about a guy in college in the 50s overhearing women talk about what he assumed was some form of geometry, but they were talking about knitting.
Related (but less visually eye-catching than the pieces by Faig Ahmed, for me at least): The Stunning Symbiosis between Math and Knitting.
posted by filthy light thief at 7:17 AM on November 24, 2015 [4 favorites]
I'm sure someone will clarify the source for me, but I recall some anecdote about a guy in college in the 50s overhearing women talk about what he assumed was some form of geometry, but they were talking about knitting.
Related (but less visually eye-catching than the pieces by Faig Ahmed, for me at least): The Stunning Symbiosis between Math and Knitting.
posted by filthy light thief at 7:17 AM on November 24, 2015 [4 favorites]
The Jacquard Punchcard Loom was the first developed of the Dark Satanic Mills.
My, how far we've come.
posted by hank at 7:43 AM on November 24, 2015 [2 favorites]
My, how far we've come.
posted by hank at 7:43 AM on November 24, 2015 [2 favorites]
Those rugs... are on drugs!
posted by GenjiandProust at 8:10 AM on November 24, 2015
posted by GenjiandProust at 8:10 AM on November 24, 2015
It really ties the centuries together.
That's just, like, your opinion, man.
posted by phearlez at 9:03 AM on November 24, 2015 [1 favorite]
That's just, like, your opinion, man.
posted by phearlez at 9:03 AM on November 24, 2015 [1 favorite]
The Jacquard Punchcard Loom was the first developed of the Dark Satanic Mills.
Here's James Burke's great piece on the Jacquard Loom(YT), and how that directly (well, almost directly) led Herman Hollerith to the invention of the tabulator system for the 1890 census(YT), that did the job in half the time it took to do the 1880 census. Hollerith's tabulator became the start of a little company called the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company, which you know today as IBM.
posted by chambers at 9:19 AM on November 24, 2015 [5 favorites]
Here's James Burke's great piece on the Jacquard Loom(YT), and how that directly (well, almost directly) led Herman Hollerith to the invention of the tabulator system for the 1890 census(YT), that did the job in half the time it took to do the 1880 census. Hollerith's tabulator became the start of a little company called the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company, which you know today as IBM.
posted by chambers at 9:19 AM on November 24, 2015 [5 favorites]
One of those rugs would look great with this distorted wooden cabinet (by Pietro Ferruccio Laviani).
posted by Kabanos at 10:27 AM on November 24, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by Kabanos at 10:27 AM on November 24, 2015 [2 favorites]
WANT! (And I can't stand rugs...)
What's a likely price of one?
posted by progosk at 11:14 AM on November 24, 2015
What's a likely price of one?
posted by progosk at 11:14 AM on November 24, 2015
If you have to ask the price ...
posted by octothorpe at 11:58 AM on November 24, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by octothorpe at 11:58 AM on November 24, 2015 [1 favorite]
I recall some anecdote about a guy in college in the 50s overhearing women talk about what he assumed was some form of geometry, but they were talking about knitting.
It was Richard Feynman and it was about argyle socks.
posted by Alnedra at 4:58 PM on November 24, 2015 [1 favorite]
It was Richard Feynman and it was about argyle socks.
posted by Alnedra at 4:58 PM on November 24, 2015 [1 favorite]
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