Category Archives: woven

We Can Weave You A Donor Organ

Posted on May 19, 2016 by Seth Winner

I recently did a talk at TEDx Nashville about how textiles can be used to save and improve lives. Check it out!

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Extra planar textiles

Posted on September 7, 2012 by Seth Winner

It’s been a while, I know. Its not that I don’t have anything to say on this blog, it’s that I have so much to do. I know, it sounds like excuses, and it is, i know. However, it has … Continue reading →

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Making Denim for Roy

Posted on March 28, 2012 by Seth Winner

Thank you , Internets, for the steady flow of videos that celebrate the construction of textiles. This one turned up a few days ago via twitter: @lbruning and I think i’ve watched it 20 times already. Back in June, I was first … Continue reading →

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Playing with Toys to Make Machines that Make Fabric

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Seth Winner

  This is inspired play. Never in my years of childhood mastery of Tinkertoys, Legos, Lincoln Logs and Erector Sets, had I ever risen to this level of engineering.

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Sheep Shaving and Speed Weaving.

Posted on January 12, 2012 by Seth Winner

Its farm show time here in Pennsylvania. I don’t know how, but I could feel it in the air 100 miles from the epicenter  at the Farm Show Complex in Harrisburg.

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The Beauty of the Weaving Mill

Posted on April 12, 2011 by Seth Winner

I’ve spent many hours standing in front of vibrating shaking rumbling industrial weaving machines during trial runs watching, with fascination, how the fabric comes together. Paramount Textiles must have been watching the same thing, because they put together this excellent … Continue reading →

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Oslo Opera House Curtains

Posted on April 9, 2011 by Seth Winner

To be honest, my appreciation of Opera is limited to Looney Tunes parodies and Fitzcarraldo‘s obsession with bringing Enrico Caruso to Peru. I make my annual Valentines day trip to the Opera, but never really have been a super huge … Continue reading →

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Sharkskin, Herringbone, and Houndstooth

Posted on February 22, 2011 by Seth Winner

I’m currently going through a mid-life clothing crisis. I’m dressing a little too… frumpy, sloppy, casual. Its not that I don’t want to look stylish, its that I’m lazy about dressing and given the choice between the old comfy knit … Continue reading →

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Textile Book Club: Reference Materials

Posted on February 15, 2011 by Seth Winner

I love a well organized reference book that is industry specific. I can page through Electrical and Plumbing manuals with fascination and pleasure the way i can read Atlases and Travel guides cover to cover. I recently spent hours paging … Continue reading →

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Lexus 3-D weaving

Posted on February 4, 2011 by Seth Winner

They oversell the technology a bit, it looks like they’re braiding tubes but the implication is they are weaving cars. Maybe they can’t show all of the technology for fear of idea theft, but it looks like they bought a … Continue reading →

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