Publisher's Synopsis
In these essays textiles are the author's windows on the world. Readers join her as she looks into the past through her grandmother's sewing tools, contemplates organizing her basement stash of yarns, and travels to a country whole textiles show past and present mixing and co-existing in unusual ways.
In one essay Ligon speculates, "Perhaps if my mother hadn't laid me down for a nap on a chenille bedspread at age two, I wouldn't have become a weaver." Whether her words urge readers to act, describe her battles with a fine linen yarn, or recount what her computer spell-check program suggests to replace weaving terms, Linda Ligon's essays will enchant, tickle and please you.
