Brad Jamison is the sole master lace-braider in the USA. His singular braided and patterned textile innovations are the result of years of trials and breakthroughs. In that time, he’s generated a catalogue of more than 1,000 original patterns.
It all began with Birds
In 2004, following an exhaustive U.S. search for flexible, stable, unbound mesh fabric to enable Jamison's company at the time, Enter Play Sports’, fabrication of its oversized shuttlecocks--Bird Ball —Brad acquired a first-generation computer-controlled circular Lace Braiding Machine from China, capable of producing material to his specifications. |
Over the years of invention and practice with programmable circular lace braiding machines Brad has transformed a technology that historically produced ornamental textiles into an efficient, virtually zero waste process for production of high performance fabrics and textile structures that provide the benefits of a braid and fluidity of a knit. His pioneering digital graphic interface translates visual representation of his pattern designs to the machine’s operation, in the tradition of Joseph-Marie Jacquard’s punch-card system for automating textile production in 1800.
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