A real life example of how a custom fabric is created from concept to a tangible cloth is that of our collaboration with Jenny E. Sabin at the University of Pennsylvania.  In July 2006, we were contacted by Sabin from the University of Pennsylvania's Department of Architecture with an exciting project.  She had generated and designed eight black and white patterns and asked Keystone Weaving to help translate them into a woven cloth.  Each was actually a binary file (basically an output of a mathematical formula).  Because weaving is binary or composed of zeros and ones, it is possible to weave  computational designs from other sources that share a binary structure.  Sabin's Fourier Carpet series is generated through a series of algorithms or instructural recipes that transform and weave color, sound and harmonic rythms.  By exchanging several emails, details of the project were discussed and the required design layout was determined.  Each image was to be 27 inches in length.  They were then to be woven as one continuous piece of 6 yards.  Once the yardage was woven and sent, the final cloth was displayed in the gallery along with the tensegrity structure that was also featured in the installation.  It was composed of over 5000 aluminum laser-cut plates and over 5000 feet of stainless steel chain.