| ▲ | rasengan0 2 days ago | |
The boom loom boss was a winner of the 2025 Core77 Design Award for Toys and Play. It's like an analog computer of weaving. If you have any experience with weaving you will understand the importance of shed formation. The key innovation is the heddle mechanism which affords great efficiency with weft pattern making through rotation of a pattern bar allowing the weaver to focus on other variables like yarn selection or design sequence. There is even a web app pattern picker to plan out designs developed with the help of a mathematician [1] Perhaps other similar ideas might be something like tablet weaving [2] or Der Weberknecht [3] The primary difference is the quick prep and setup time with the boom loom and it's near instant to develop modular samplers [4] If anyone knows of any other hacking mechanical weaving machines like the boom loom; please share! [1] https://www.theboomloom.com/krokbragd-picker [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tablet_weaving [3] https://weberknecht.notion.site/Projekt-Weberknecht-Project-... | ||