HM: Thinking about the evolution of Chinese logographs (used also in Japanese as kanji characters) from recognizably pictographic origins to modern simplified and abstracted forms as a parallel of the evolution from hand craft to contemporary technology. For example (from en.wiktionary.org), the change from an oracle bone script form

of the character used for “weaving” to the contemporary simplified form 织. Working in parallel on a digital design workflow to create drawdowns for complex multilayer weave structures to execute on our TC2 computer-sequenced Jacquard loom — starting from Meiji-era Japanese lift plans available on handweaving.net then writing Matlab code to layer them for color-cycled warp and weft…