I got to know the last remains of former weaving techniques and try to preserve and further develop this knowledge and craft.
I collect and restore old weaving machines, draperies and textile literature of past ages.
This makes me realize again and again how perfectly recent developments in our craft build upon the old established methods and add to them.
Combining traditional and modern computer-based technology offers me a new approach to the way our ancestors thought and worked.
In particular the old methods of Jaquard weaving can be reproduced very well on CAD systems; as the Jaquard machine is known as one predecessor of the computer. Quite often it is clear that the computer is tailor-made for weaving.
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