Thread Ripper is a doublestranded novel about weaving, programming, and pioneering women. A tapestryweaver in her thirties embarks on her first big commission a digitally woven tapestry for a public building. As she works, devoting all her waking hours to the commission, she draws engrossing connections between the stuff that life is made from DNA, plant tissue, algorithms, text, and textile and that which disrupts it radiation, pests, entropy, and doubt. In the novels second strand, we meet Ada Lovelace, the 1830s mathematician and pioneer of computer programming, and mythical figures such as Penelope, the faithful wife of Odysseus, who wove and unpicked a shroud to put off her 108 suitors.A mesmerizing choreography of textile and technology, archive and memory. With cellular precision, Amalie Smith weaves connective tissue between selfhood and history through vital, tactile accumulations of affect and imagery. Innovative, intricate and achingly bodily, Thread Ripper is a rare treasure Elinor Cleghorn, author of Unwell Women Amalie Smith has woven a formidable book about a doubtful weaver and digital technologys textile past. Everything is beautifully intertwined PolitikenLuminously cerebral, ambitious and wideranging, yet miraculously uncomplicated to follow An ingenious hybrid novel WeekendavisenAMALIE SMITH is a Danish writer and visual artist. A graduate from the DanishA graduate from the Danish Academy of Creative Writing and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts,...

Binding: Paperback;224 pages; Publisher: Lolli Editions; Classification: FA; Weight: 410 g; Dimensions: 151 x 209 x 23

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