Topology studies properties of shapes that survive continuous deformation — stretching, bending, twisting — but not cutting or gluing. A donut and a coffee mug are topologically equivalent. A pretzel, depending on how you count its crossings, is a genuine knot. Braided bread follows the same logic as a mathematical braid group.

But beyond the formal analogies, there is something deeper: across the world, human hands have been instinctively creating topologically rich structures long before the mathematics existed to describe them. This project is a celebration of that quiet, delicious parallel.