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fuzzy_logic
May 2, 2009

unfortunately hideous and irreverislbe

I went and saw an exhibition of weaving this week and thought of you guys. I spent about an hour walking back and forth between two pieces and felt like I might need to go lay down for awhile. This picture is awful but the piece was so incredibly intricate:



The slip next to it said it was made through a sort of simple card-programming process and was basically 2 or 3 very simple motifs done over and over at different resolutions. If you ever get an opportunity to see some Laotian work please go, I'm not sure of the name of the technique but it is mind-blowing.

Here are some better examples, I saw the piece (or a very simlar one) that's in the top left. The assymetrical stuff was amazing to me, I can't understand how it was done.

http://www.tienchiu.com/travels/laos/lao-weaving/

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