As China’s largest official scientific body, CAST’s claim to the world’s earliest computer is a big deal. It comes at a time ...

The computer, at its core, is an input-output device: it receives instructions, executes programmes, performs calculations ...

Chengdu Shu Brocade and Embroidery Museum showcases the best brocades in China. Guide Yan Hua walked me into a room where two people were busy working on a loom. It is no ordinary loom. The greater ...

All the small looms of the Bisbee Fiber Arts Guild were put to use last week teaching a dozen women patterns used in weaving. Huck and Swedish lace, 4 and 8 harness may sound alien to just about ...

But it wasn’t an engraving. It was a sheet of finely woven silk – a thousand threads to the inch – so subtle and detailed that it deceived many who saw it. It also held the secret to Babbage’s ...

LEXINGTON, Va. (WDBJ) - Frances Richardson sits at her 19th century loom, demonstrating techniques that were used in Rockbridge County 200 years ago. The historic pattern coming to life in front of ...

The handloom weaving tradition is undergoing a transformation in the district. The patterns, for instance. The old school is sticking to convention, but the younger generation of weavers are ...

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Sophisticated silk-weaving loom dating back to the Western Han dynasty used physical pattern cards which acted like ancient software.