The Cleaner of Chartres (Viking £16.99) shows her on top form in a rich weave of loss and redemption spiked with Ms Vickers' irrepressible wit.
So sternly does the literary superego command the sublimation of these childish pleasures that, even today, Plumly sounds suspicious of the "luxury, drapery, weft, and rich weave" of Keats's romances.
In the displays, which will be unveiled at Thanksgiving, real antiques and rich woven fabrics, instead of mere design-room simulations, will be used in the backdrops to convey a sense of continuity and tradition.
It is a rich narrative weave, seeded with mythic archetypes and resonant with echoes of 20th-century fantasy classics (Pullman, Tolkien, Star Wars).
In his masterpiece, the Ashmolean Museum and Taylor Institution, Oxford (1841 44), he produced a type of Grecian mannerism in which elements from Greek, Roman, Renaissance, and Baroque architecture were united in a rich sculptural weave of powerful originality.
In fact, it sounded more like their trickiest record to date, a rich, dense weave of sound that variously involved the composer Nico Muhly, the Brooklyn Youth Chorus and a string quartet drawn from the American Contemporary Music Ensemble.
Elaborate guitar lines and a waltzing piano on "Love Is a Camera" is a rich mysterious weave in song about a witch capturing souls while tremulous ballads like "Young Blood" "Until the Stars Collide" and "When the Storm Has Blown Over" have an earthiness and fragility similar to Sibylle Baier or Ane Brun.
She called it "fragrant rich lady weave spray," and then our friend Andrea tweeted about it, and now I'm writing about it.
Exposed to breath and light, you can imagine them disintegrating into powdery mist: silk pillows and robes, thin brocades of cloth with floral patterns and rich colors, woven baskets, felt hats, a braided fried dough twist, feathers from caps and arrows.
Motherhood, however, unfolded a rich tapestry woven with opportunities to heal my past and reconnect with my soul.
At Charles the Bold and Margaret of York's wedding the room "was hung above with draperies of wool, blue and white, and on the sides was tapestried with a rich tapestry woven with the history of Jason and the Golden Fleece".
