“One of the reasons I like to come to Ruth’s Table is, as the name suggests, humans gathering around a table making something. I like the quality of the conversations around me while people are busy making things: stories bubble up, and then drift off, as we tie a particularly hard knot on a tiny piece of thread.

The snippets of conversation in this work do not make any sense. They are sort of still in the air, as if just spoken. They are snippets. Like the shining dupioni sari silk, flashing different colors as they twist and catch the light. Now, entwined with words from conversations around the table, they find themselves together, having already lived a life, being spoken, stories being lived or just being a sari.”

Mary W., Ruth’s Table participant