Polly Barton was trained by master weaver Tomohiko Inoue in 1981, in the heart of the religious community of Oomoto in Kameoka, Japan. Barton has been using ikat as the means for expressing her gesture of threads in woven silk drawings and paintings ever since. She weaves on an ancient kimono loom and works primarily in silk, although a few of the pieces in this show use a new Japanese fiber of silk spun around a copper core.