While we often view cloth as a simple commodity, a piece of fabric is actually a complex grid of tension and intersection, a binary language that predates the computer by millennia. The loom is perhaps the first true processor, a machine designed to manage thousands of individual threads, organizing them into a coherent structure through the rhythmic repetition of the “warp” and the “weft.” To watch a weaver at work is to see a human body become part of a mechanical sequence. The thud of the beater, the click of the shuttle, and the dance of the foot pedals create a percussive music that serves as the heartbeat of a…