It began when collector John Pottie found what he thought was a print of a game of billiards. Removing the art from the frame, he realized it was actually woven silk. How could such a small piece of art be created from fibers and a loom? The fascination ignited; soon the National Silk Art Museum was founded in the quaint winery town of Weston, Missouri. The creation of silk-woven tapestries harkens back to the 1700s. Tapestries are composed of thousands of dots of color, sort of like pixels. Drawings were…
