What Every Band Holds
Stripes record what maps cannot
Color shifts in each band mark new camps and seasons along the migration path.
Vermilion is earned, never chosen
Madder-root dye, slow-extracted over weeks, bonds permanently with hand-spun wool.
Geometry speaks the desert's first language
Triangle rows guard the threshold. Diamond chains mark the hearth. Each motif a sentence.
The loom walks with the household
Ground-loom stakes driven into sand at each camp, rolled onto the camel's back at dawn.