Inch of Brocade

Three years ago, an apprentice walked into the Jinling brocade workshop and ruined her third bolt of silk before lunch.Yun brocade is a stubborn art: continuous warp, broken weft. The most patient hands spend a decade learning it. She was eight years old when she arrived, and she could not learn it. For three years she sat at the loom and cried into tangled thread, until the master of the workshop...