People have been using flat, ribbonlike materials, such as reed strips, to make woven baskets for thousands of years. This weaving method has reemerged as a technique for engineers to create textile ...

People have been using flat, ribbonlike materials, such as reed strips, to make woven baskets for thousands of years. This weaving method has reemerged as a technique for engineers to create textile ...

Textiles makers may well have been among the first math wizards. Many of these “wizards” live in what is today Laos. Various weaving methods have been devised to design and store intricate patterns.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Guowei (Wayne) Tu, University of Michigan and Evgueni Filipov, University of Michigan ...