An interactive loom, which includes a loom-mechanism, a user interface, a loom interface, and a controller. Each cam is in the form of a cylinder rotating about the axis thereof. The circumferential surface of the cam exhibits a determined surface geometry, such that each of a plurality of sections of said circumferential surface corresponds to a respective one of the arms. The circumferential surface further exhibits a respective cross sectional profile and such that each rotational position of said cam is associated with a respective state of lowered and raised arms. The loom-interface includes a motor coupled with the cam, and operates loom-mechanics according to instructions. The controller receives a design from the user-interface and transforms the design into a sequence of states of the arms required for achieving the design. The controller further provides the instructions to the loom-interface. The instructions are associated with state changes of the arms.

A system, method, and material for encouraging study or mastery of a fibre art skill is provided. A fibre source material is incentivized to encourage individuals learning or mastering a fibre art skill by concealing a tracker in the fibre material or attaching it to the packaging of the fibre material. The tracker may be a coupon, token, or ticket that reveals a code, number, or some other form of identifier associated with an incentive. The tracker is revealed upon unwinding the fibre material while performing the fibre art skill, which allows the individual to exchange the revealed tracker for an incentive at, for example, a specific store, online, or through some other specified manner

The invention relates to a method for the controlled run-up of a weaving and shedding machine, wherein the weaving and the shedding machine are connected with a controller, wherein the weaving machine is driven by means of a main drive, wherein the shedding machine is driven by means of an electric motor auxiliary drive, wherein the weaving and the shedding machine are connected by means of a common converter intermediate circuit for the energy flow transmission, wherein the shedding machine is started at a time point t0 and is run-up until to a time point t1 to an overspeed that lies above its operating rotational speed, wherein the time point t1 lies before a time point t3, wherein the weaving machine is started at a time point t2 and wherein the start phase of the weaving machine lies in the time interval from the time point t2 to the time point t3, and wherein a power transmission (feedback) by means of the converter intermediate circuit from the shedding machine to the weaving machine is carried out in the stated start phase. The method according to the invention is characterized in that the shedding machine is run-up to a predetermined overspeed between the time points t0 and t1, and that the gradient of the rotational speed progression of the shedding machine is more negative in a later section of the start phase than in an earlier section.