|
1cd47a1
|
One false step, and you'll fall all the way to Tartarus--and believe me, unlike the Doors of Death, this would be a one-way trip, a very hard fall! I will have you dying before you tell me your plan for my artwork.
|
|
death
doors-of-death
arachne
artwork
weaving
tartarus
heroes-of-olympus
percy-jackson-and-the-olympians
the-mark-of-athena
|
Rick Riordan |
|
50a6164
|
"Marvelous," she said. "Tell me about this tapestry." Arachne's lips curled over her mandibles. "Why do you care? You're about to die." "Well, yes," Annabeth said. "But the way you captured the light is amazing. Did you use real gold thread for the sunbeams?"
|
|
arachne
spiders
weaving
flattery
trickery
heroes-of-olympus
percy-jackson-and-the-olympians
the-mark-of-athena
|
Rick Riordan |
|
8f932fa
|
"You never know!" Neith snapped. "The point is, I'll survive the apocalypse. I can live off the land!" She jabbed a finger at me. "Did you know the palm tree has six different edible parts?" "Um--" "And I'll never be bored," Neith continued, "since I'm also the goddess of weaving. I have enough twine for a millennium of macrame!" I had no reply, as I wasn't sure what macrame was."
|
|
macrame
palm-tree
weaving
land
goddess
rick-riordan
|
Rick Riordan |
|
bd49ed0
|
Warp threads are thicker than the weft, and made of a coarser wool as well. I think of them as like wives. Their work is not obvious - all you can see are the ridges they make under the colorful weft threads. But if they weren't there, there would be no tapestry. Georges would unravel without me.
|
|
weaving
tapestry
|
Tracy Chevalier |
|
d65a296
|
"I am trying to make sense of this. Survivor's guilt, acceptance, there were words that made me roll my eyes; surely I was too sophisticated for such cliches... So now today I look up the word acceptance and the definition is "to receive gladly" and that doesn't sound right. I flip to the back, and look up its earliest root, "to rasp," and discover this comes from the old English for "a thread used in weaving," and bingo, that's it. You can't keep pulling out the thread. You have to weave it in and then you have to go on weaving."
|
|
weave
weaving
|
Abigail Thomas |