Philadelphia Inquirer

Publish Date: Oct 25, 2024

By: Rosa Cartagena

Excerpt:

"In a large, unadorned warehouse in Southwest Philadelphia, a towering machine pierces through the silence for the sake of art. Multicolored spools of wool sit on surrounding shelves, awaiting their turn at getting punched through a cloth as big as 10 feet tall and 13 feet wide. A whirring robot begins this ritual on command, repeating a rhythmic thudding sound for hours as it pulls threads through precise design paths. Hundreds of thuds later, the blank fabric becomes a patterned rug."

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