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Support Our Work Tensengral and TEF Braids are independent pattern, textile, and materials development effort built over decades of experimentation, making, and machine-based exploration. Your support helps us continue developing new braided structures, testing ideas, documenting pattern knowledge, and sharing this work with researchers, designers, manufacturers, and curious minds. By supporting us, you help sustain: pattern development and sampling material experimentation machine setup and maintenance documentation and storytelling collaborations in apparel, footwear, sport, and emerging material research Choose a Level of Support Friend of TEF Braids and Tensengral $25 A simple way to show your support for our work and help us continue exploring pattern-based textile development. Studio Supporter $50 Helps support ongoing sampling, documentation, and small-scale material experiments as we continue building and sharing our pattern library. Pattern Supporter $100 Supports the development of new programmable braided structures and helps us continue the long process of testing, refining, and preserving this work. Research Supporter $250 Helps fund deeper exploration into structural fabrics, zonal reinforcement strategies, and new applications in apparel, footwear, and advanced material systems. Innovation Supporter $500 Provides meaningful support for machine time, prototyping, and the development of new pattern directions that may lead to future collaborations and products. Patron of Pattern Science $1,000 A major gesture of support for our independent work. This level helps sustain the broader vision: advancing pattern knowledge, preserving decades of development, and opening new pathways for research, design, and manufacturing. Custom Support Any amount If you would like to support our work at another level, we welcome contributions of any size. Why Support Us This work has been built outside traditional institutions, through years of persistence, curiosity, invention, and hands-on making. Support helps us continue developing a body of knowledge around braided geometry, material behavior, and programmable textile structure—while keeping the work alive and moving forward. Thank You Every level of support matters. Whether small or large, your contribution helps us continue creating, testing, documenting, and sharing this work.