@gwenbeads You are about 2,000 years ahead of me. Am talking about the development of arithmetic. Before Euclid, not Jacquard.

The basics in understanding how numbers relate to each other likely came from weaving. Things like how repeating patterns work differently on prime numbers, how two odds together make an even count. All of that matters in weaving.

It's not firmly established that weaving led to math, but weaving was definitely the first technology where an understanding of numbers and their relationships mattered.

Weaving andscience go hand in hand.

@gwenbeads Funny how life aligns sometimes

I am currently listening to "The Fabric of Civilization" by Virginia Postrel, which goes into the math/algorithm side of weaving at length.

There is some theorizing that some of the earliest advances in math stemmed from weaving. Basic concepts recorded for the first time, like rules about even and odd numbers, prime numbers etc. All necessary fundamentals needed for the successful weaving of patterns.