Indonesian weaving inspired the original tensegrity researchers, Fuller and Snelson. Their traditional Takraw ball was woven with a pattern cited by Snelson as similar to tensegrity structures.
Rizal Muslimin draws on such weaving traditions in the article he published in the latest issue of Leonardo, "Learning From Weaving For Digital Fabrication In Architecture". Muslimin formerly taught at the Bandung Institute of Technology, Bandung, Indonesia and now seems to be at MIT. His abstract:
This project restructures weaving performance in architecture by analyzing the tacit knowledge of traditional weavers through perceptual study and converting it into an explicit rule in computational design. Three implementations with different materials show the advantages of using computational weaving that combines traditional principles with today's digital (CAD/CAM) tools to develop affordable fabrication techniques.
The name Leonardo reminds me of Rinus Roelofs article on Leonardo roof grids, another woven surface that is a worthy study for students of tensegrity. Published by Kim Williams books, it features many images. Below, a grid by Roelfs, the author of that article and an intrepid tensegrity explorer. .
Leonardo website, http://www.leonardo.info/
The article is listed here: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/LEON_a_00007
Rinus Roelfs article on Leonardo rooves, http://www.kimwilliamsbooks.com/leonardo/
Rinus Roelfs website http://www.rinusroelofs.nl/
Tim Tyler works with Leonardo space frames http://spaceframe.org/
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