Amrita weaving on the dobby circa 1981letterpress - connection I finger the sorts of Gill Sans the font for this morning’s focus— the heaviness in my hand familiar a song of before fingering the lead I can’t yet find ligatures, ems, ens yet feel the lineage— the same whisper while weaving forty years ago calls me here today
You sent me down the rabbit-hole of this ‘humanist’ story of sans-serif. Fascinating!
Did you know Gill Sans became used on the deliberately simple modernist covers of Penguin Books? (Source: Wikipedia)
Lovely photo of you, too.
Used hands to tie threads
Now heart weaves wow, woe wise words
And learns l e t t e r p r e s s