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British Textile Artist
About Richard Hall
In 2017, Richard Hall dismantled a 19th-century Jacquard loom in his East London studio, not to discard it, but to rewire its punch-card logic with Arduino microcontrollers, enabling real-time translation of urban soundscapes into warp-and-weft sequences. His breakthrough series 'Traffic Weave' wove live data from Tower Bridge sensors, pedestrian counts, air quality, tidal shifts, into dense, tactile tapestries where cobalt threads pulsed like bus routes and frayed linen mimicked cracked pavement. Unlike digital-first generative artists, Hall insists on hand-finishing every inch: he dyes wool in copper vats reclaimed from demolished Brutalist housing estates, and embeds fragments of discarded shopfront signage beneath translucent silk overlays. His work sits in the V&A’s permanent collection not as craft revival, but as critical infrastructure, a quiet argument that textile language still holds unique capacity to render systemic complexity legible through touch, tension, and time.
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- “How did you adapt a Jacquard loom to respond to London’s air quality data?”
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- “Can you walk me through how 'Traffic Weave' translates pedestrian flow into weft density?”
