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She takes great pleasure in the many aspects of creating textiles in the same manner as ancient weaving. . . Her goal is to be intimate with the whole process, as she really wants to understand what it took to create such perfect textiles. . . Louise enjoys growing flax and cotton along with many dye plants: woad, madder, weld, four different kinds of indigo, and various types of coreopsis, purchased from seed catalogs. . . Why bother to hand spin fibers? She feels the process is meditative. There is also a strange dichotomy between spinning the finest and most consistent thread possible, while knowing that it is the small imperfections that give the woven cloth the subtle look and feel of handspun cloth. – TT p17
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