History and Evolution of Looms - Textile School

History of the Spinning Wheel

The spinning wheel is an ancient invention that turns plant and animal fibers into thread or yarn, which are then woven into cloth on a loom.

The History of Container Technology

To cover the history of container technology, we need to go back to the early days of virtualization in the 1960s...

About — Every Object an Archive

We interview people about their experiences with technological objects that were once everywhere, but are now being replaced or redesigned. We are interested in the physical experience of living with these objects, their handfeel and relationships to our bodies. We are also interested in how they shaped our habits, relationships, and ways of being. Technologies are more than physical objects: whole worlds of infrastructure, process, policy and culture are built around them.

The Ingenious Engineering of Silk: How the 2,000-Year-Old Pattern Loom Powered the Silk Road and the Wealth of Ancient China

The Silk Road's long period of high activity spanned the second century BC and the fifteenth century AD, but its name wasn't coined until more than 400 years after that.

Loom — thread prototype (offline)

Gestalte die Zukunft durch Innovation und Design Thinking | HPI d-school

Entwickle innovative Produkte und Services an der Schnittstelle von Mensch und Technologie und gestalte die digitale Transformation. Komme zur HPI d-school!

Design Life-Cycle

general life-cycle assessments of popular materials used by designers and products bought by consumers. where and how was it made?

Japan design details

A long thread about 300 design niceties and nuances in Japan