Megan Adam
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Megan Adam
In The Fabric of Interface , Stephen Monteiro argues that our everyday digital practice has taken on traits common to textile and needlecraft culture. Our smart phones and tablets use some of the same skills—manual dexterity, pattern making, and linking—required by the handloom, the needlepoint hoop, and the lap-sized quilting frame. Monteiro
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“Cloth has traditionally been inseparable from life itself. Silk is drawn from the cocoons of silkworms fed on mulberry leaves, cotton is spun from the bolls of the cotton plant. Hemp fabric is produced from plant stems, basho cloth from leaf sheaths, and shinafu from tree bark, which passes through a series of processes to become yarn. Yarns are d
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