[seqfan] Re: Weaving

[Olivier Gerard]

Lucas (of Lucas sequence) was interested in this topic, and in
particular techniques for satin fabric.

You might be interested by these links (in french)

http://culturemath.ens.fr/histoire%20des%20maths/htm/textile/index_textiles.htm

http://wims.unice.fr/wims/fr_tool~weaving~weaver.fr.html


On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 4:58 PM, David Wilson <davidwwilson at comcast.net>
wrote:

> I was looking at my daughter's awesome cherry pie crust latticework, and
> being the nerd I am, I wondered if there is a mathematical theory of
> weaving, e.g., thread patterns in cloth, chain link fence, chain main,
> chair
> caning, and other 2d-surfaces.
>
> I would think theory would bump up against topology, knot and braid theory,
> lattice theory and tessellations, but does it fall completely under any of
> these areas?
>
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