Here is a wonderfully creative and interesting look at the links between traditional weaving and semiconductors by CHM engineer and forensic computer historian, Ken Shirriff.

(For a previous look at this Shiprock story -- when high-tech met Native American traditions — see the exploration undertaken by Lisa Nakamura in her CHM essay, Indigenous Circuits. (Nakamura is Gwendolyn Calvert Baker Collegiate Professor in American Culture at the University of Michigan).

"History is the loom on which the threads of time are woven into the fabric of our collective memory, each moment a stitch in the intricate tapestry of humanity's journey.”  — Anonymous.