EoW July 2007

Feature

Automated wire production (weaving, knitting, braiding)

The processes under review here richly deserve the designation of specialities. Beginning with a sublimely simple form, a strand of wire, they work it together with other strands to produce some of the most intricate shapes known. The combination of simplicity and elaboration – the transformation of frailty into strength and utility – is perhaps unique in industrial practice.

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Photo credit: Archipelontwerpers courtesy of Haver & Boecker

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EuroWire – July 2007