WeaveTech Archive 9912 >From [email protected] Wed Dec 1 02:35:47 1999 Received: (salmon@localhost) by salmon.esosoft.net (8.8.5) id CAA19713; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 02:35:47 -0700 (MST) Received: from ecpport2.midcoast.com.au (ecpport2.ecopost.com.au [203.28.64.15]) by salmon.esosoft.net (8.8.5) id CAA19702; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 02:35:42 -0700 (MST) X-Authentication-Warning: salmon.esosoft.net: Host ecpport2.ecopost.com.au [203.28.64.15] claimed to be ecpport2.midcoast.com.au Received: from tnewman (mcport28-210.midcoast.com.au [203.12.28.210]) by ecpport2.midcoast.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA03446 for <[email protected]>; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 20:35:08 +1100 Message-ID: <003801bf3bdf$5e007fa0$ed1c0ccb@tnewman> From: "Trudy Newman" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: handloom/powerloom? Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 20:24:07 +1100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: [email protected] Precedence: bulk Reply-To: [email protected] Would the difference be explained by industrial loom/weaving compared to hand loom/weaving? Trudy Newman 27 Allunga Ave PORT MACQUARIE NSW 2444 AUSTRALIA. Ph/fax:(02) 6582 2722 [email protected] To reply privately, send message to "Trudy Newman" <[email protected]> >From [email protected] Wed Dec 1 08:10:41 1999 Received: (salmon@localhost) by salmon.esosoft.net (8.8.5) id IAA28912; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 08:10:41 -0700 (MST) Received: from mailbox.syr.edu ([email protected] [128.230.18.5]) by salmon.esosoft.net (8.8.5) id IAA28904; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 08:10:40 -0700 (MST) Received: from Room215.syr.edu (syru2-042.syr.edu [128.230.2.42]) by mailbox.syr.edu (8.9.2/8.9.2) with SMTP id KAA10453 for <[email protected]>; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 10:10:43 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 10:10:43 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <[email protected]> X-Sender: [email protected] X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: [email protected] From: Allen Fannin <[email protected]> Subject: Re: speedy Sender: [email protected] Precedence: bulk Reply-To: [email protected] At 02:58 PM 11/29/99 -0500, Bonnie Inouye <[email protected]> wrote: - 1 - WeaveTech Archive 9912 >Allen has impressed us all with the quick production of scarves on his >power loom, but we know that most of us don't have the space or finances >to set up this kind of equipment whether we would want it or not. My remarks were in response to a question regarding the comparative speed of various means of cloth production. In the same response was a description of both the evolution which I underwent as well as a description of how I used a very wide range of production means according to which was most appropriate for the volume involved. I was and never am in any way suggesting that handloom weavers adopt a level of production technology which is not appropriate for their needs. As to the space and finance issue, logic would indicate that were the volume of production sufficient that items had to be made faster, finances and space could be found if the producer so desired or as an alternative the work could be commissioned out to those who have the finances and space. >I am curious about Allen's present position. If you could make woven >textiles with such speed and efficiency, why stop? Whether I personally am still in the weaving mill business or not is irrelevant to the discussion and does not detract from the experiences I mean to pass on in the comments I contribute to the discussion. I spent 30+ years actively doing that about which I comment. The fact that I am no longer actively in mill work doesn't erase so much as one of those years. My reason for stopping are personal and not for public disclosure, but these reason had nothing to do with the failure of the various levels of technology with which I worked. >The show is just wonderful. Like >Allen, Peter was supporting a family by producing woven textiles, but >instead of buying power looms, Peter devised techniques for making pieces >that are not done in mills. I always wonder why woven things not done in mills seem to be placed on a pedestal. Were it not for the things produced in mills, like mine and others, most of the world who is making woven things not done in mills would be naked indeed. Mills, with all their technology provide the means by which people can be provided with textiles of an extremely wide range of designs at a wide range of price points. Considering the alternative, this technology should be more appreciated rather than rebuffed. The fact that Peter chose to do things completely manually should not place him or anyone else similarly situated on a higher plane than any who chooses to do things by mechanical means. AAF ALLEN FANNIN, Adjunct Prof., Textile Science ECR Department 224 Slocum Hall Rm 215 College for Human Develpment Syracuse University Syracuse, New York 13244-1250 Phone: (315) 443-1256/4635 FAX: (315) 443-2562 -5300 mailto:[email protected]> http://syllabus.syr.edu/TEX/aafannin To reply privately, send message to Allen Fannin <[email protected]> >From [email protected] Wed Dec 1 08:22:16 1999 Received: (salmon@localhost) by salmon.esosoft.net (8.8.5) id IAA01824; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 - 2 - WeaveTech Archive 9912 08:22:16 -0700 (MST) Received: from mailbox.syr.edu ([email protected] [128.230.18.5]) by salmon.esosoft.net (8.8.5) id IAA01806; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 08:22:14 -0700 (MST) Received: from Room215.syr.edu (syru2-042.syr.edu [128.230.2.42]) by mailbox.syr.edu (8.9.2/8.9.2) with SMTP id KAA16337 for <[email protected]>; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 10:22:17 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 10:22:17 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <[email protected]> X-Sender: [email protected] X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: [email protected] From: Allen Fannin <[email protected]> Subject: Re: HANDLOOM/POWERLOOM (long) Sender: [email protected] Precedence: bulk Reply-To: [email protected] At 11:35 AM 11/29/99 -0700, you wrote: >Allen Fannin wrote: >> Remember Laura's comment that the cloth carries no >> equipment fingerprint? >> >If we can agree to respect and sidestep philosophical perspectives for a >bit, I would appreciate a practical discussion by means of comparisons >of PRODUCTION handlooms vis-a-vis automated (electrically powered) looms >or hybrids based on the following differences. To visual the >differences, use as the object to be woven a double bed size wool >blanket: > > 1. Specifications of the loom and complement of equipment to be used, > 2. Ergonomic design and occupational hazards, > 3. Energy requirements - human as well as manufactured power, > 4. Time to produce, > 5. Quality of end product, > 6. Studio - Physical plant (space requirements for loom and > associatedequipment, activities, and the supporting systems - power, air, temperature, water, light, floor design to carry the equipment, > surface finishes, furnishings - other than weaving equipment, etc. My apologies for quoting this entire message, but it was necessary to illustrate why, unfortunately, this e-mail venue is not suitable for the kind of detailed response required. At the risk of sounding as if I am sidestepping the question, let me suggest that this kind of information, contained in many of the books in the bibliography posted a while ago, is best gleaned and studied elsewhere and brought back to the discussion. Just providing an understanding of the technical language alone used to describe what is implicit in the above list would require a massively long message. Two things handloom weavers need to do if they are interested in learning more about mill technloogy and then considering how it can be applied to handloom weaving at even the most basic level are: a)Read as much as you can lay your hands on about mill tecchnology. Books are out there and easily available through ILL. Study the mechanical principles involved in creating woven textiles regardless of the means used to produce them. Do all this before you go to... b) Get to as many mills as possible. Make whatever effort is required - 3 - WeaveTech Archive 9912 becaust the learning will be well worth it. Talk to mill people at every level and gain a better understanding of what they do and how much like ordinary people they are. Look past the visual confusion, noise and activity and most of all your own discomfort with the unfamiliar. AAF ALLEN FANNIN, Adjunct Prof., Textile Science ECR Department 224 Slocum Hall Rm 215 College for Human Develpment Syracuse University Syracuse, New York 13244-1250 Phone: (315) 443-1256/4635 FAX: (315) 443-2562 -5300 mailto:[email protected]> http://syllabus.syr.edu/TEX/aafannin To reply privately, send message to Allen Fannin <[email protected]> >From [email protected] Wed Dec 1 12:17:18 1999 Received: (salmon@localhost) by salmon.esosoft.net (8.8.5) id MAA06258; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 12:17:18 -0700 (MST) Received: from smtp.thegrid.net (smtp.thegrid.net [209.162.1.11]) by salmon.esosoft.net (8.8.5) id MAA06247; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 12:17:16 -0700 (MST) Received: (qmail 26671 invoked from network); 1