Automated Mesh Weaving Machine
There's a platform in the center of this big room, you stand on it and two screens appear on either side of you. You put your hands there and you have to hold perfectly still, because if you don't, you might get stitches of fabric in your skin and I've heard that's very painful. And even if you do manage not to have that happen to you, it still itches and tickles. What's going on is this machine is weaving a garment over your body. Guaranteed perfect fit, by the way. The threads are synthetic and engineered to maintain your ideal body temperature. Me, for example, it's keeping warm. T'zim-Sha, it's keeping cold. If you need to take it off it peels apart at certain places, some you might expect and some not. They're kind of like seams. (Here Ta'zhen peels apart lengthwise the mesh garment covering her arm. It comes apart with a thin point of purple light. When she releases it, it seals back up. It appears nothing had ever happened.) If it gets cut anywhere else you'll have to get it fixed up.The automated mesh weaving machine is very much a descendant of the Loom, operating completely independently of Stenza hands to weave fabric directly over an individual. It sees wide use in the Stenza military, weaving Insulating Mesh to form an under layer for Battle Armor, and a modified form is used to weave mesh garments in yellow for pups in slightly larger size and to account for their general squirming tendencies. However, automated weaving machines are completely unknown outside of these contexts; Stenza seem to favor traditional weaving for almost all other fabrics.
Mechanics & Inner Workings
The automated weaving machine still requires a room to itself, in part to accommodate Stenza adults who can reach almost eight feet tall. The platform and the two screens on either side of it connect to an array of sensors which instruct a series of miniature shuttles as to the placement of the thread around the individual (this process requires the individual to stand as perfectly still as possible, as the shuttles can slip and embed thread underneath the skin; this is exceptionally painful and necessitates immediate care, but is not necessarily life-threatening). The shuttles and the sensors are all managed by a computer which determines how much fabric to weave and where, where to incorporate the seams, and most importantly when to stop.
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I love that this is a step further than a traditional loom. Technology! \o/ I like that the Stenza still prefer a traditional loom though.
Technology has its place, but there's also a lot of moving parts and you know how pups can be.