Circular loom weaves carbon fibre pillars for Toyota Lexus (jalopnik.com)

Google tells us there are more than two circular looms in the world

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=%22ci...

What is rare about it?

In other news, rare space station orbits the Earth. Is 'rare' really the best word for something like this?

Aren't socks and pantyhose woven on circular looms?

Toyota has had a long history with circular looms. Sakichi Toyoda invented the circular loom in 1906. The profits from his automatic loom business were used to start his son's automobile manufacturing company.

This article is interesting in that it shows the minimum amount of information required for something to be called an "article". Any less, and it would actually start to suck in nearby information and eventually explode.

Any idea how big the resulting weaved product is? I am having difficulty discerning scale....