Meandering | Video Field Note
In collaboration with the ERC funded research project PENELOPE hosted at the Deutsches Museum, Munich on weaving and mathematics in Ancient Greece, Handloom Futures held a workshop in August 2023 on the algorithm of the famous meander pattern from ancient Greece. To showcase the cloth as a research product, Ellen Harlizius Kluck, the Principal Investigator of PENELOPE asked weavers Odelu Vurugonda and Dharmender Vaddepalli to weave fabric that contained the meander pattern as well as its algorithm. In this video, Handloom Futures fellows documented the weavers construct a 12 pedal frame loom to weave this research product in the weaving village of Jangaon. During the workshop, participants also learned tablet weaving, an ancient Greek technique, and experimented with the vertical warp weighted loom. This video field note is meant to be accompanied by the actual meander textile authored by Odelu.