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UA researchers find 3,500-year-old loom that reveals key aspects of textile revolution in the Bronze Age

srean: I am always pleasantly amused that many HN folks share with me a love for weaving, knitting and knotting; not to mention ropes.Dang had once posted a long list of HN discussions on these topics.I think there is something about them that squirts a little bit of dopamine in our pattern seeking, puzzle solving brains.For me, one of draws was how does the symmetry of the woven pattern get weft into the cloth. Multi-shaft looms does it differently from, say, a Kashmiri rug.When I had joined HN decades ago I had no idea that there would be this shared interest. Frankly, there were no reason for this to be the case.Then one day this happenedhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44462404

zem: I think it's not just puzzle solving - for me it's the idea of creating something from raw materials where that something is itself a standard building block. it appeals to the same part of me that programming does.