Re: thread and other threads

[Emaraude@aol.com]

sorry, our practice pieces were the ones woven at 1/4 inch per hour and they 
were only 4 inches wide....she spends months on her pieces working fulltime.

so you think that my idea of of flattening a man under a gigantic brayer, 
scanning the result, translating it into a weaving pattern with my weaving 
software,  weaving it on the loom using human hair and strips of photographs 
of DNA (all done under UV lights of course) so that I could photograph it 
with a pinhole camera it isn't Alt-photo? 

Ceri

> 
>  So this would only take 28 hours of weaving?
>  
>  Time to break out the scanner and the "loom" driver software. Get a thread
>  density / color plot for photo shop and press the weave button on my
>  desktop.  This is great because now we could make king size sheet images
>  that can be seen from six meters!
>  
>  Are there looms that weave better than others?
>  
>  
>  How is their user interface and option selection?
>  
>  Can they auto-recover from thread jams or is this just a newsgroup issue?
>  
>  Can I specify a finished product weight?
>  
>  Can I merge this with AutoCAD to weave an image just to the size and 
contour
>  of a specific object?
>  
>  Can I buy a computer and get a loom free?
>  
>  Are there alternative thread suppliers that can supply thread other than 
the
>  manufacture's product?
>  
>  Am I stuck with cotton or is  silk thread an option?
>  
>  Which is more expensive, the thread or the loom?
>  
>  I have heard of an Alt process called embroidery, is this a real textile or
>  not?
>  
>  I have to agree the digital process can drive one crazy.
>  
>  That's my story, and I am sticking to it!
>