Padonma

Lotus weaving

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Surprisingly, rather than being something out of pre-history, lotus fiber production was invented in Burma in the early 1900s by Daw Sa U in order to weave robes for monks.

Burmese attire

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Burmese sartorial culture is rich and including some elegant, simple, and comfortable clothing that has inspired Atelier Padonma

Ridig Heddle Weaving

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Heddles a.k.a. combs are ancient textile tech that can be used to weave QR codes.

Fisherman trousers

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The wrapped waist trouser is a fashion element that pops up all over Southeast Asia

OSS not philanthropy

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The Padonma project is bootstrapping a self-sustaining commercial network via open source software (OSS) and QR tags

Handweaving rMQR codes

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Since rMQR codes can be narrow, they can be woven into bands easier that the original square QR codes.

rMQR codes

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2022 brought a new fashion to QR codes. Now they can can be narrow and or long.

Prior art handcrafted QRs

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Folks have crafted QRs codes with tablet weaving, crocheting, etc.

Handloomed QRs in India

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The Indian government has established a blockchain-base garment authentication system involving weaving QR codes into sarees.

Luxury and blockchain

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The fashion world is aready using QR codes for authentication, and experiments with blockchain for supply chain is already a thing

Lotus fiber research

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Several studies of the lotus fiber industy have been published

Bandweaving

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Weaving bands is one of the simpliest textile technologies

Burmese Weaving

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Burmese culture is rich in textile skills from domestic to commercial contexts

rMQR experiments

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We needed to prove that handwoven rMQRs codes would actually be scannable

Session #14

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Sixth time’s a charm, it seems

Session #13

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The first full QR completed unfortutely proved unscannable

Session #12

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Basic techniques seemed good enough so we started working on a full rMQR code

Session #11

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Band Five starts on a new higher capacity heddle

Session #10

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Gear has been getting sorted out so time to improve technique

Session #9

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Band Four starts: experimented with complimentary warp pick-up and pixels being 3 warps wide

Session #8

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Time came to adopt weft faced techniques

Session #7

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We had figured out the weft needed to be thicker so we tried 1 mm

Session #6

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Band Two starts: wool proved too stretchy for crisp patterns at small scale so next experiment was cotton

Session #5

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A second attempt at a QR big finder

Session #4

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Semi-square but misaligned pixels start getting assembled into QR structural components

Session #3

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Pixel aspect ratio experiment

Session #2

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Band One continued while attempting to make pixels a.k.a. modules

Session #1

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Band One starts: first thing we tried was wool, which was way too stretchy

Atelier Padonma

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A lotus fiber house

Aung Sakkyar

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Aung Sakkyar Lotus Robe Production Co Ltd

Backstrap weaving

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One of the simplest form of weaving incorporates the weaver into the loom

Ko Than Hlaing

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In business sinc 1987 on Inle Lake, Burma

Labor costs

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Thread spinning represents the dominant bulk of the labor value. Anyone with access to lotus stalks and a knife can produce this valuable resource.

Loro Piana

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Loro Piana was the first fashion house to work with lotus fiber.

Mỹ Đức

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Vietnamese lotus-silk producer led by artisan Phan Thị Thuận in Phùng Xá, Mỹ Đức.

Peoples of the lands of lotus fiber

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Naga

Nine Naga ladies in black and orange

Pochi Silk

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Pochi is a grassroots collective of passionate women in Myanmar, producing hand-loomed lotus silk from Shan State

Samatoa

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In Cambodia, Samatoa started producing lotus fiber after a drought in 2008 destroyed the silk crop.

Sanajing Sana Thambal

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At age 27 in 2019 Bijiyashanti Tongbram single handedly introduced lotus fiber technology to India

The Hope

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Burmese Brand with concept store in Bangcock

The Intha

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These folks seem to be in Lake Inle

Turquoise Mountain

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Yangon based

Wayzgoose

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UK based source of fine Burmese textiles for interiors