A heartening, wise and hilarious collection of personal essays about life, weaving and the creative process. The collection's extraordinary pleasures involve textiles and language equally - whether the author is exploring what it means to have a "loom-shaped life" or asking the questions "What's warp, what's weft, what are the interlacements?" Her precise, probing and often quirky language and thoughts are always engaging. Time, yarn and the works of our hands - even when the processes involved "do not yield easily to language" - are threads that run through these lively conversations. 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 whose textiles show past and present mixing and co-existing in unusual ways.