Joanne Downs
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Joanne Downs
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I loved weaving this piece ... and couldn't help but wonder who last wove it and how they might have used it. I imagined a woman weaving it, either for herself or someone dear to her, the loom near a window to light the work. The rooms we weave in would be very different, but we'd both throw the shuttle and watch the pattern build pick by pick. My own daughter, used to cold winters, will be marrying a man from Virginia and I think she needs a counterpane for home, something woven of lightweight cotton for a warmer climate, something the Baers and their neighbors would have recognized.
Ms and Os - Charlotte Welchhans