Some astonishing work in Complexity 2022 an exhibition of the work of members of “complex weavers”.
Two particularly ‘algorithmic’ examples:
Game of Crones by Alice Schlein
“I am amazed at the design possibilities of rearranging the threads on a shaft loom and seeing how changes in one part of a design cascade into other parts, the permutations continuing in an endless loop. This to me is magic.”
BoroBoro Ori Yardage by Beth Ross Johnson
“… I wove the yardage in such a way that it looks random, but I was actually keeping track of the different pattern areas and balancing lights and darks. The ‘stitched’ patterns are woven in a supplementary warp and weft technique called Sashiko ori. I have been researching this technique for the last couple of years using Japanese and Peruvian sources.”
The first one is too similar to bitfields for that to be coincidental, and the pseudo-stitchwork in the second one is lovely in how you can visually see the offset rhythms of the warp and weft come together to form different two dimensional patterns.