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work. It was during this period that she resolved to live within the context of all civilizations and to "aim at taming the thread, to becoming a part of its nature."

[¶  [[strikethrough]] Because she is [[/strikethrough]] a most illuminating commentator on her own work, [[strikethrough]] Sheila [[/strikethrough]] Hicks has said in her notations of a would-be weaver:

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set line for line
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Where one thread becomes attached to another
or where one linear element transverses a second
When fibers overlap and twist actively binding
together
or passing over and under each other
And when a simple knot or loop manages to hold a
network of threads interlaced, meshed,
fused
I observe and marvel
how a textile is made
A continuous thread traveling up and down
in between,
around a tautly [[strikethrough]] - [[/strikethrough]] stretched harp of threads
becomes a pliable plane
a fabric, a cloth
a weaving, a tapestry
a message
of hierographs written with wool
netting, knitting, twining, wrapping may result
in a wig
a bundle, a band
a ball, a braid, a hammock
using these as implements
there remains but to speak
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