Finding Self Through Saori; No `Mistakes' in This Freestyle Weaving

Byline: Margaret LeRoux Mihoko Wakabayashi teaches weaving by breaking most of the traditional rules of the craft. Instead of designs based on complex, mathematical patterns, the looks that emerge in the colorful and multi-textured cloth she weaves are purely improvisational. At the storefront studio on Highland Street in Worcester where Wakabayashi and her students work at a cluster of looms, you may find pieces of bark or feathers woven into a wall hanging or a vest that combines a vivid array of coarse and fine threads.