Feeling the texture of text
Cross-stitched book sculpture by Lauren DiCioccio
The word text and the word textile have a shared Latin origin. This is readily apparent, but still it begs the question: What do texts have to do with textiles?
The word text comes to us from the Latin textus (via the Old French texte). In Classical Latin, textus referred to the construction of a linguisti…
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