Marianne Fairbanks shares the handheld laser cut loom she designed. Marianne Fairbanks, Associate Professor in the School of Human Ecology at UW-Madison, gives a history of looms, including the ...

The custom-made TC2 Digital Jacquard loom–all 1,000 pounds of it–has arrived and is now assembled in Assistant Professor Laura Devendorf's Unstable Design Lab. First projects will focus on just ...

Loom bands are taking the world by storm – and it’s not hard to see why. Rainbow-coloured and cheap, kids and adults can have hours of fun putting together flash designs with these bright pieces of ...

Engineering is an important part of all our lives. Think of all of the new inventions that have made life better and easier – they were designed by engineers! When engineers look at a problem, they ...

1. For the bracelet, work a total of six flowers in the colour sequence pink–green–lilac–pink–green–lilac. Start with six pink bands for the first flower. Stretch a pink band from peg 1M across to 1L ...

Part of writing for Hackaday involves doing the rounds of our community’s events in search of amazing projects for your delectation. This weekend it was a trip to Maker Faire Delft, thanks to the ...

Trainer Josie Garlitos, a master weaver who works at DOST-Philippine Textile Research Institute (PTRI) for a long time, explained that the use of the loom in this training is a bit different from the ...

1. Wind one lilac band around the hook three times. 6. Pick up another pair of lilac bands and repeat steps 2–6. You have now made your first petal. Slide the petal onto the handle of the hook. 10.