The Marriage Of True Minds Working on Shakespeare's sonnet 116 has made me re-examine how I construct books using textiles. When analyzing the text of this sonnet, I took a deep dive into the history of thought and knowledge. How information is documented and re-analyzed each generation. What has changed? What has remained the same? Looking at the text in this light, in the now , but not forgetting the historical past lingering in the shadows, I realized that the poem was much more complex than I had initially thought. And, instead of working on it daily for four weeks, I worked on it daily for twenty weeks. Here are some WIP imagery inspired by Sonnet 116: Linocut printed onto a quilted page. A few textile pages waiting to be sewn into a book. Silkscreening sonnet 116 onto hand-painted fabric by Suzanne Coley .