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Article: Unicorn tapestries, horned animals, and prion disease.(About The Cover)(Cover Story)
- Article from:
- Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Article date:
- June 1, 2004
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"The written text is a recent form of textile, ancillary to those primary texts 'told' or 'tooled' in cloth" (1). Thousands of years before humans could write, they could weave, turning cloth into a commodity, symbol of wealth, and decorative art. In many cultures, weaving has become a common linguistic metaphor as "weave" is used broadly to mean "create." A weaver "not only fashions textiles but can, with the same verb, contrive texts" (2).
Textiles, which date back to the Neolithic and Bronze Ages, have strong egalitarian roots and an ancient connection with personal expression (3). The primary purpose of weaving was storytelling. In Greek mythology, skilled ...