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Weaving patterns. Can you help me identify what is going on here? ("x" are yang, "o" are yin) Last column edited and corrected, Explained below.

 

[The Hermit]

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Weaving patterns. Can you help me identify what is going on here? ("x" are yang, "o" are yin)Kinda cryptic. But not if you know what you are looking at.

Hint: The upper left square represents the woven pattern for Hexagram 1 uc. The square right to it is Hexagram 2 uc. First all yang. Next one is all yin.
Under them, on the lower left, the pattern hexagram 63 and 64 as unchanging.

What about the other side? Can you recognize it? Plain weave. when they are combined, 1 and 2, or 63 and 64, they relate, the patterns are very, very stable, but the fabric is also very rigid. When hexagram 1 transitions to hexagram 2, its plain weave, the most basic and ancient pattern of waving and basketing. If you can see this, now looking at what the text says might be interesting. It is about weaving the fabric of human life in time.

The way fabrics behave has a direct relation to the weaving pattern, and lines need to be read in that context. This is of course known and should be reminded everytime we stray from what the text, and especially the patterns have to say.

By the way I made a mistake at the beginning on the right side, the last column needed to star with "o" (yin) to show the oppostition arising from the second material leading now. Hex 2 to 1, hex 64 to 63. Edited.

 

[The Hermit]

Ok, a visual Icebreaker.

 

[Liselle]

Hermit, could you do us a favor and please post images in the body of your post, not as attachments? Thank you.

 

[The Hermit]

Here you can see it applied. The starting pattern is 51. The relating pattern is 55. The result is a complicated piece of cloth, very unstable and also very uncomfortable, because when the yellow part is great, the clothing feels good, airthight, waterproof and light. But when it becomes harden or even fragile, almost to being torn apart, or it has the outside of the clothing on the inside (poorman´s survival strategy) blue part inside, than we suffer. Should we go deeper into this? (edited, thanks to @Liselle, who caught me having mistakenly taken hex24 for hex51)

 

[Liselle]

Do you have 24 there for 51, by any chance? Blue o's are yin, yellow x's are yang, right?

I don't pretend to follow this yet.

 

[The Hermit]

Do you have 24 there for 51, by any chance? Blue o's are yin, yellow x's are yang, right?

I don't pretend to follow this yet.

You are right. I'll correct it. Lets add another yang in the forth. This is exciting. I like "yet", good enough for me.

 

[The Hermit]

I'm having a lot of fun here. I've always been interested in this sequence. How come Hex 44 Temptation has so much power? She feeds on every yang line, eager to please her.

The last change, with 5 lines changing, I designed it backwards. I was on hex 44, I knew it would break the cloth, so I came to hexagram 2 as its related hexagram. This will break it up into pieces.

Letting temptation take the field. I feel kinda alone now, seeing all this, but I hope in the future, someone will make a contribution, maybe researching on their own, or just trying to figure out what lies behind it all. You will find this coded information in every weaving culture in africa, europe, and americas..

I have never seen fabric or textile as I see it now. I must admit, I am puzzled. I can see masters of weavers, generation after generation, passing on the secret. I want to know the secret. I want to understand the code. But for now, it is hidden to me. And I admit, I love it.

See for yourself.

 

[hilary]

More explanation needed, I'm afraid. I can see how you're representing lines with a series of xs and os:

xxxxxx = young yang
oooooo = young yin
xoxoxo = old yang
oxoxox = old yin

I'm guessing that the grid you've displayed them on is one used to depict weaving patterns.

And this is not an unreasonable place to look for a relationship - I'm sure I've read something about weaving metaphors in early China... ah yes: https://www.academia.edu/30746931/Weaving_Metaphors_and_Cosmo_political_Thought_in_Early_China

The gap: the rest of us don't know the significance of the weaving patterns. You seem to have a clear idea of what kind of cloth each creates. Can you explain?

 

[The Hermit]

More explanation needed, I'm afraid. I can see how you're representing lines with a series of xs and os:

xxxxxx = young yang
oooooo = young yin
xoxoxo = old yang
oxoxox = old yin

Nailed it. Warp (vertical information) Wept (horizontal information). When processed in this very crude excel style of mine for now, you can see the interaction. You can see the fractures of the material. Is the relating hex the future? Is it an unconscious desire or fear? What is it? Well it is really what it is. A new pattern entwined in the hexagram you casted. That simple and also highly sophisticated.

And this is not an unreasonable place to look for a relationship - I'm sure I've read something about weaving metaphors in early China... ah yes: https://www.academia.edu/30746931/Weaving_Metaphors_and_Cosmo_political_Thought_in_Early_China

Good article, serious about its findings. Great, I will keep this as a tradition, backing up with sound info. Thanks. The site you used also very serious, I appreciate it.

The gap: the rest of us don't know the significance of the weaving patterns. You seem to have a clear idea of what kind of cloth each creates. Can you explain?

I can explain. Why not start with this while I approach it with more concentration. I am clearly not on my best today. Here some thoughts

What about a method? Simple rules and a close look, applied to our own readings and how they played out, comparing? For now no interpreter, no text. Just the simple pattern. Lets call it an experiment for now.

x=good, xo=bad in good, ox=good in bad, o=bad.

Or if not to use ethics terms, which I think is wrong, but politically correct:

x=positive, xo=more positive than negative, ox=more negative than positive, o=negative.

This is a tentative, for me at least interesting approach to view the energy decreasing or increasing in situations, if resonance exists and is called out be the querent/reader. How will the energy impact in the interaction of the patterns when changing or unchanging. The new weaved pattern will "dictate" quite literally how the clothing will be and how it will feel to us, we will wear it.

If you give me an example, I´ll try to apply it. Share your thoughts whenever you like, please, ty