Tides

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Victorious

Framed here are samples created by Sequoyah weavers. These samples reflect some of the colors and patterns that weavers could create through loom weaving. Some of the looms used in the past continue to be used by weavers and their descendants today.

The Dawn Patrol, Kevin Cooley

‘Hands weaving magnetic-core memory, IBM, Poughkeepsie, New York,’ 1956. Photograph by Ansel Adams.

They were all done by hand using a kind of treadle-operated frame with a little (crochet!) hook to pull the wires around the cores. The people making them were mostly housewives who did this as a side-job in the 80s and 90s. I don't know if it's still done that way anywhere in the USA today, but the history of computing and space exploration is littered with "women's work" like this.

Alexis Trice - Wild Eye, 2024 - Oil on panel