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https://textielmuseum.nl/en/
https://lienzodelatierra.org/
Patreon:
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timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:58 flexible sheets in nature
01:31 yarn
03:12 weft knit
05:10 going 3D
06:30 analysis
09:03 warp knitting
10:00 ladders
10:36 fancy stuff
11:44 netting
12:24 plain weave
14:15 industrial revolution
15:14 modern loom
17:53 twill weave
19:21 adding piles
20:27 brilliant weft accumulator
corrections:
01:35 counter rotation of multiple spun threads is in fact needed for some fabrics and is very common.
06:58 as it turns out, it's more common than I thought to cut open circular knits and sew them back together, because they are so much faster to make. So the seam might not be a good indication whether or not it's made on a circular machine.
13:20 plain weaves have significant stretch on the diagonals. adding yarn in these directions makes for the actual stiffest fabric.
17:50 water jet looms are quite rare as it turns out. Air jet looms seem much more common.
19:05 Besides the amount under-over, one of the deciding differences between twill vs satin weaves is also how many yarns you move over to the side on the next row. A twill weave will give these diagonal lines because on the next weft yarn you do the "1 over" on the very next warp yarn. But a satin weave will skip one, or multiple yarns. So the diagonal pattern will seem to disappear.
Photo credits:
All video is made by me. Many pictures too, but not all. Those that I didn't make came from Wikipedia. These are the creators of the pictures that wanted attribution.
00:23 Pantyhose - Tobias ToMar Maier
00:24 Seatbelts - The Car Spy
00:24 bird netting - Avenue
00:25 denim - Nikodem Nijaki
01:09 bark - Juha Kämäräinen
01:09 bark backpack - Aineias
01:16 flax fibres - Aamiri77
01:18 wool - Rob
01:19 catapillars - Fastily
01:19 cocoons - Krish Dulal
14:50 punch cards - ArnoldReinhold
14:51 early computing - bundesarchiv, Jens Gathmann