Employing Aesthetic Possibilities of Compu Dobby loom’s weavings into fashionable women designs

Abstract

It's known that hand weaving is one of the oldest crafts have been made by human according to their need of wearing clothes. As time goes by, the man developed his tools and materials to reach the desired fabrics of different designs that meet his needs, where he was able to develop the loom, which was represented in many styles such as ground loom, and vertical loom to more advanced looms in our days. Subsequently, hand looms have evolved to become more handy and easier to control. Hand looms become computerized as a part of contemporary technological development. The current research tackles one of these looms, which known as the computerized dobby loom, this loom is multi-potential that the researchers imported it specifically to be applicable in the practical experiment in this research. It is a hand loom with 24 shafts, with a dobby device connected to a computer. The weaving work is produced by using a specified weaving design program called “Weave Pointv7”, and executed manually by using the two pedals attached to the loom. Then we reach the main point of this discussion, which is designing creative contemporary ladies' clothes from the produced fabrics.