The Bewildering Thread. Lithographs by Enid Mark ; poems selected by Ruth Mortimer and Sarah Black. Wallingford, PA: ELM Press, 1986. Lithograph copyright Enid Mark 1986

The present work developed from Ruth Mortimer’s plan for an anthology of poems using weaving and fabric arts as metaphor. An exhibition of woven prints by Enid Mark, at the Eric Makler Gallery in Philadelphia in 1980, suggested to the compiler the possibility of collaboration on an artist’s book. The poems selected for this book are all by contemporary poets, with the addition of the Emily Dickinson text to provide not simply “the bewildering threat” but a continuous thread.

The lithographs by Enid Mark were printed under the supervision of the artist by Timothy P. Sheesley at the Corridor Press, Philadelphia. The text, set in Monotype Centaur and Arrighi, was printed at Meriden-Stinehour Press, Lunenburg, Vermont. Wrappers are custom made paper by Dieu Donné Press and Paper, Inc., New York. The case was made by Barbara Blumenthal at the Catawba Press, Northampton, Massachusetts. The inlaid fabric, a Larsen Design, was provided by Jack Lenor Larsen. The edition is limited to fifty numbered copies signed by the artist. No. 26.