What the loom remembers

1
Patterns passed through nine hands
Each korvai border carries the signature of its weaver, passed from master to apprentice across sixty years.
2
Gold that never fades to yellow
Pure zari thread is drawn from silver wire wound with twenty-four karat gold, not electroplated brass.
3
Six thousand warp threads, one rhythm
The mulberry silk warp stretches twenty-two yards across the loom house; a single broken thread halts the entire chorus.
4
Silence weighs more than the silk
The loom room runs on the quiet clock of hand and foot pedal; no motor, no urgency, no compromise.