This is a multimedia mix, in several senses. Attempts at documenting, dissecting, or preserving a practice that can be both art and artifice, empowering and oppressive, individual and industrial.
00:00. Audio from opening sequence of La Libertad (dir. Laura Huertas Millán, 2017)
01:36. Sound Diaries – “Cumbrian Loom” / “Estonian Loom” (2012)
02:39. Agente Costura – “Maskerade Brigade” from re:flections 04 07 20 compilation (Attenuation Circuit, 2020)
05:51. Andrea Borghi – Tistre #3 (Dinzu Artefacts, 2019)
11:42. Shirts – seventh untitled track from Shirt Noise (Moon Myst Music, 2020)
17:53. Leo Correia de Verdier – “Stygn” [excerpt]
22:21. Kelly Ruth – “Nascent” from Forms (Pseudo Laboratories, 2019)
26:28. Natalia Beylis – Variations on a Sewing Machine no. 3 (Beartown, 2022)
30:41. James Wyness – “Textility” from Dead Sound Ethnographics (self-released, 2016)
36:50. Michal Fojcik – “Weaving Workshop” (2014)
37:30. Audio from opening sequence of The Woven Sounds demo (dir. Mehdi Aminian, 2019)
Further Reading/Viewing
Woman Interwoven documentary series
Mika Tajima, Negative Entropy
Paola Torres Núñez del Prado, Cross-Cultural Tangible Interfaces as Phenomenological Artifacts
Jodie Mack, The Grand Bizarre
Rajee Samarasinghe, Foreign Quarters
Noise Not Music 