This program will feature an in-depth view of the Handweaving.net site from its beginning in 2004 until now. Kris Bruland, creator of Handweaving.net, will discuss the history of the site, major content and feature areas including drafts and digital archive documents. The presentation will include an overview of draft collections, special features such as the common threading search and color editor, profile and block drafting, some unique and beautiful drafts, future plans, questions and answers, and more!
A live demonstration showing how drafts for the site are produced through specialized software directly from the digitized pages of old works will be included too. This technique has enabled over 70,000 accurate digital drafts to be produced for Handweaving.net from various works on weaving, many of which were previously unknown yet are now being discovered woven throughout the world!
Please join us if you are curious to know more about Handweaving.net, including what the site offers, how it is unique, why, and how it was created, and current and future plans!
About Kris:
Kris Bruland is a software architect living on Whidbey Island in Washington State. He became interested in weaving nearly 20 years ago after giving his wife a Baby Wolf loom, becoming interested in how it worked, learning about drafts and patterns, and then learning to weave. That led to purchasing a computerized AVL dobby loom and writing software to control it, which later became the foundation for the Handweaving.net website. Weaving and computer science, just two of Kris’ many interests, proved to be a very interesting and fruitful combination. The creative application of custom software enabled a prolific collection of digital resources to be produced and offered to the world as Handweaving.net. Kris is still working to expand and improve Handweaving.net today, and has many other interests as well, including software and math, orchids, gardening, traveling with his family, woodworking, playing classical piano and harpsichord music, restoring antique apple presses, and making cider, and of course weaving.