# Weaving

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**Post date:** [4 November 2022 16:06 UTC](https://forum.patternclub.org/t/weaving/359/2 "2022-11-04T16:06:52Z")

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Some astonishing work in [Complexity 2022](https://complexityexhibition.org/all-works/) an exhibition of the work of members of “complex weavers”.

> **[Beth Ross Johnson - BoroBoro Ori Yardage - Complexity 2022](https://complexityexhibition.org/beth-ross-johnson-boroboro-ori-yardage/)**
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> Beth Ross Johnson used leftover cotton threads and a supplementary warp and weft technique called Sashiko ori to create stitched patterns.

Two particularly ‘algorithmic’ examples:

 ![image](https://forum.algorithmicpattern.org/uploads/secondsite/original/1X/2bb60b500a2bc37ea50b205b153b404479e87197.jpeg)  
[Game of Crones](https://complexityexhibition.org/alice-schlein-game-of-crones/) by Alice Schlein  
“I am amazed at the design possibilities of rearranging the threads on a shaft loom and seeing how changes in one part of a design cascade into other parts, the permutations continuing in an endless loop. This to me is magic.”

 ![image](https://forum.algorithmicpattern.org/uploads/secondsite/original/1X/6ec911cfb906ef7d5a38b257305cdc1ad0719c17.jpeg)  
[BoroBoro Ori Yardage](https://complexityexhibition.org/beth-ross-johnson-boroboro-ori-yardage/) by Beth Ross Johnson  
“… I wove the yardage in such a way that it looks random, but I was actually keeping track of the different pattern areas and balancing lights and darks. The ‘stitched’ patterns are woven in a supplementary warp and weft technique called _Sashiko ori_. I have been researching this technique for the last couple of years using Japanese and Peruvian sources.”

The first one is too similar to [bitfields](https://forum.algorithmicpattern.org/t/bytebeat-tixyland-and-other-functions-of-time/396) for that to be coincidental, and the pseudo-stitchwork in the second one is lovely in how you can visually see the offset rhythms of the warp and weft come together to form different two dimensional patterns.

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