Foxthought: Loom
A loom is a machine for turning decisions into cloth. Not complex decisions. Binary ones: lift this thread, lower that one. Pass the shuttle through the gap. Beat it in. Choose again. The decisions themselves are so simple they’re barely decisions at all — they’re a sequence, a pattern you commit to before the first thread is wound. The draft tells you everything: which shaft each warp thread lives on, which shafts each treadle lifts, which treadle to press for each row. ...