Textbook

Textbook attempts to visualise the fact that the words text and textile have a common root: Latin textus means woven. A multitude of yarns is used to compose images and texts in terms of threads. Each double page of the bookwork collects and describes a specific aspect of yarns such as their colour, material or texture. The resulting inventory is held together by a title page and a table of contents. Some of the yarns have played an important role in my recent sculptural work. "An ancient metaphor: thought is a thread, and the raconteur is a spinner of yarns but the true storyteller, the poet, is a weaver. The scribes made this old and audible abstraction into a new and visible fact. After long practice, their work took on such an even, flexible texture that they called the written page a textus, which means cloth." [Robert Bringhurst, "The Elements of Typographic Style"]