The Algorithmic Loom
Computational patterns meet ethnographic documentation.
Create patterns through parametric controls, explore cultural intelligence from field research, and own generative art through physical merch with QR code provenance.
Studio
Generative pattern creation through parametric controls. Optional sound-to-pattern translation. Own your art through custom merch.
Lab
Ethnographic field notes, cultural documentation, and pattern theory. The ongoing journey of collecting artifacts.
Editions
Limited pattern releases and physical goods. Community collaborations and subculture explorations.
Generative Patterns Through Parametric Controls
A free tool for creating computational textiles. Adjust density, color, and structure parameters to generate infinite variations. Optionally upload sound to translate audio into weave structures. Own your art by ordering custom merch with unique QR codes.
Parametric Controls
Control density, color, and structure in real-time. Experiment freely to discover unexpected combinations. Generate infinite variations through computational rules.
Sound Translation
Upload audio to translate sound into pattern. Frequencies become thread density. Amplitude becomes float length. An experimental feature.
Physical Ownership
Order custom merch with your patterns. Each item includes a QR code linking to your design and the cultural research behind the weave.
QR Code Provenance
Every physical product includes a unique QR code linking to the pattern origin, creation parameters, and ethnographic context. Your participation becomes part of exploring how computational systems can honor traditional craft knowledge.
The Algorithmic Loom
Weaving is humanity's earliest programmable art: binary interlacement, warp over weft and weft over warp. It is also material computing, where any algorithm must obey physical laws. Thread has tension limits. Floats can only run so far before a fabric fails. Fibers change with climate and dye.
Vibeweaving translates ancient systematic thinking into modern digital tools, but the code remembers what materials can do. Some patterns remain digital. Others translate to physical textiles through collaboration with weavers who understand that code must listen to what materials want to do.
The algorithmic loom is tender: it holds computational possibility and material reality at once. We're not replacing craft. We're extending its vocabulary, making pattern creation more accessible while honoring the mathematical elegance and embodied knowledge practiced by weavers for millennia.
Cultural Intelligence & Pattern Theory
Ongoing ethnographic work documenting textile intelligence from artisan communities and contemporary subcultures. Exploring how computational systems can tell cultural stories while honoring traditional knowledge.
Soundscape Documentation
Recording ambient sounds from markets, temples, and landscapes. Translating frequencies to thread density, rhythm to pattern structure.
Natural Dye Intelligence
Documenting botanical knowledge: which plants, what water chemistry, which mordants. Each palette tells a story of place.
Traditional Patterns
Working with artisan communities to document patterns with permission. Creating digital archives that preserve craft knowledge.
Subculture Observations
Documenting visual systems from rave culture, street fashion, and urban environments. Personal storytelling through lived experience.
Culture Editions
Two types of explorations: Community Collaborations that document artisan traditions, and Subculture Collections based on personal observation. Testing how generative systems can tell cultural stories.
Custom Merch
Turn Studio patterns into physical products. Each item includes a QR code linking to your design and research context. Mugs, totes, and apparel become a way to own generative art.
- Physical products with your patterns
- Unique QR code provenance per item
- Links to pattern parameters and research
- Part of an ongoing experimental archive
Culture Collections
Community Collaborations: Heritage craft documentation with artisan partnerships. Subculture Collections: NYC rave culture and contemporary observations through generative design.
- Subculture storytelling (rave, street fashion)
- Limited pattern pack releases
- Behind-the-scenes field documentation
Supporting Artisan Communities
Community Collaboration editions operate on a 15% profit-sharing model. Funds return directly to artisan communities, supporting women's economic programs, digital preservation, and ongoing craft documentation. Beyond profit-sharing, we provide upfront documentation fees and prioritize long-term collaboration over one-time extraction. Testing how technology can support traditional practitioners while building digital archives.
Fair Documentation
Upfront fees, profit-sharing, and ongoing collaboration. Testing compensation models that honor the time and knowledge of artisan communities.
Women's Economic Support
Creating merch collections for rural communities. Exploring how digital tools can provide income opportunities for women weavers and dyers.
Digital Preservation
Building archives of traditional patterns, natural dye recipes, and craft techniques. Documentation of knowledge that took generations to develop.
Create, Explore, Collaborate
Every pattern created contributes to a growing archive exploring how computational systems can honor traditional craft while enabling new forms of ownership and cultural storytelling.
Try The Studio
Generate patterns through parametric controls. Test the sound translation feature. Order custom products with QR code provenance.
Create PatternsJoin The Journey
Follow ethnographic research, field notes, and cultural documentation. An ongoing exploration of how code meets craft.
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Weaver, musician, cultural organization? Interested in documentation and digital preservation? Let's explore together.
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