Crafting Stories: Texts & Textiles

Harvard FAS

How do you weave a story? Remember someone through a quilt? Encode knowledge in knots? Write code on a loom?Weaving and writing may seem like separate practices—one made of thread, the other of words—yet both are ways of creating and sharing meaning. This seminar invites you to explore how texts and textiles communicate beyond traditional language through texture, pattern, rhythm, and sensation. We begin in Greek antiquity, where Penelope weaves and unweaves a shroud to control her fate and…