MultiWeave is a textile tool, technique and research project. The textiles that can be made with the tool are characterized by the potential to make sculptural objects. Matilda Dominique and Maja Gunn reflect on using the tool…

Poetic reflections on making by Aaron Decker 

Looking at durrie (flat woven rug) weaving traditions across India, this article by Chandrashekhar Bheda finds an amazing diversity of looms and tools with varied pre-weaving processes, and corresponding ways of working on each of the different looms. 

What if we could tell a different story, Seth C. Bruggeman asks. What if we looked for inspiration in craft and cognitive science and object theory? What if we could write a history of labor and embodied knowledge that shows how skill itself is a survival strategy, one that we all share because it is literally built into each of our bodies?

How does one attribute citation to the lived experience? As an editor, Adriane N. Dalton reflects on the role of affirming or diminishing the tacit knowledge of lived experiences by asking for a citation…

‘Handles, handled. Liking how they feel in hand is justification enough’. Judith Leemann has been collecting old handles for years – this essay examines what makes them a tool.

While crafting, the tool and the body unite to act, respond, and sense all the time. Bilge Merve Aktaş reflects on how this unification turns the body into a tool and the tool into the body, both embedding activeness and aliveness while facilitating interactions and translating performances. 

Now more than ever, the loom operates as a Trojan horse through which to insert discourse around social justice into commodity culture. Olivia Bailey investigates…