Monthly Archives: January 2008

Stressed, and an answer to the puzzle

By Tien Chiu | Published: January 30, 2008
For some reason, I’ve been really stressed the last few days, to the point where even minor things are upsetting me.  I can only conclude that I’m trying to do too much at once, and try to scale back on the intellectual bits and pieces that I’m working on.  I find I tend to stress [...]
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A (weaving) puzzle

By Tien Chiu | Published: January 29, 2008
I was playing around this morning with steepened twills for my Exploring Multishaft Design study group and discovered this interesting little puzzle: given a twill, you can steepen the twill line or make it shallower by skipping shafts in the threading or the treadling. This isn’t new news, but I then discovered that [...]
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Anniversary!

By Tien Chiu | Published: January 28, 2008
Today celebrates my and Mike’s 2nd anniversary.  We’re going out to Paragon, a nice restaurant near AT&T Park, to celebrate.
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Studying weaving

By Tien Chiu | Published: January 27, 2008
This weaving study group is turning out even better than I thought it would!  We’re getting eight or ten messages per day back and forth, most full of interesting observations that take considerable thought to fully absorb (remember, I’m a novice weaver).  It’s a real challenge and going to be more so as I try [...]
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Weaving and mathematics

By Tien Chiu | Published: January 26, 2008
I’m really pleased with how this online weaving study group (working through Exploring Multishaft Design) is going.  One of the members is also a mathematician, and posed the interesting question, “How many distinct twills can you get on n shafts?” I thought about this a bit and realized that this is basically equivalent to a problem [...]
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