The art of weaving by loom could hold the key to producing stronger and more complex carbon-fibre structures. What does a textile loom invented more than 200 years ago have to do with 21st-century ...
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Sophisticated silk-weaving loom dating back to the Western Han dynasty used physical pattern cards which acted like ancient software.