Who is OSLOOM?
OSLOOM is being developed by a team of people who are enthusiastic about the project and are interested in contributing to the making / DIY / open source hardware community.Margarita Benitez
lead instigator
OSLOOM has been a dream of Margarita's for a few years now. Attempting to get funding and the perfect team of individuals has taken a while, but finally it seems that everything is falling into place. Margarita's interest in weaving occurred somewhat backwards to a traditional weaving experience. She had never woven prior to attending a boot camp workshop at The Jacquard Center with Bethanne Knudson. Her first weaving experience was with industrial Jacquard looms. She proceeded to learn more about weaving as she progressed to the TC-1 loom, a computerized floor loom, during her graduate studies at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Eventually, she finally made her way to weaving on floor and table looms but there was no comparison to the computer controlled looms. No one wants to see this project succeed more than her. Bringing a low cost DIY open source computerized floor loom such as OSLOOM into fruition can change what the studio weaver can accomplish and bring their studio practice into the digital world.