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the original software engineer, coding worlds in thread long before machines learned the trick.
means A person who makes cloth by interlacing threads on a loom, or by extension any creature or thing that constructs something through similar interlacing.
from From Old English 'wefan,' to weave — a deeply rooted Germanic word, kin to Old Norse 'vefa' and German 'weben,' and ultimately tied to an ancient Indo-European root meaning to plait or twist. The '-er' is the familiar agent suffix that turns a verb into the one who does it: one who weaves, a weaver. The same web of roots gives us 'web' and 'weft,' all spun from the same old idea of crossing strand over strand.
- loom logic
- Jacquard looms used punch cards, inspiring early computers
- social bird
- Weaver birds knot elaborate nests, no hands required
- ancient craft
- Weaving predates pottery and the wheel
- binary roots
- Over-under threads are essentially ones and zeros
- word origin
- "Text" and "textile" share the same Latin root
harriet powers — african american quilter who created narrative textile works in georgia, 1880s-1910s
anni albers — bauhaus textile designer and weaver who revolutionized modern weaving, 1899-1994