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le t t e rso ur fro m r ea de rs my personal treasure Ornament Magazine, for me, is practically a life-changing series of the art and craft of personal adornment. My large collection is part of my personal treasure. Cynthia Olson Orlando, Florida no digital, print only I love Ornament and have subscribed for decades. I do not want a digital version, print only. I cannot imagine getting any pleasure from a magazine that can only be viewed on a computer screen. Barbara Ward Midland, Michigan Thank you for valuing our print edition. We provide the option of digital for those subscribers who would like to read the digital as well as our magazine in print. It is included in the subscription price. For those who prefer only digital, the magazine is available at a separate rate. dear ornament What a joy to hear of Corita Kent on your Postscript From The Editors for Volume 36, No. 1. I was her student for a summer session at Immaculate Heart College in 1955. When we heard the "Hail Mary" being recited we knew her class had started. She spoke of people being like wide neck or narrow neck bottles. Fortunately, for me, I was a wide neck. I wanted to be filled by every sensory experience her blithe spirit expressed. She was like a human computer. She was so aware of combinations of color, form and texture. Creativity was her aura. Her goal seemed to be making us aware of all the wondrous happenings of the visual world. I wanted to rush back to my art teaching job and be another Sister Corita. I was thirty-one at the time and now at eighty-eight I am still enjoying living in a Corita-inspired world. Ornament Magazine, of course, is a major pleasure when it arrives in my mail box. Thank you so very much for bringing the world of Corita Kent alive for us again. I have been reminded of my lifetime of visual joys because of her. Dorothy Herger Vallejo, California 14 ORNAMENT 36.2.2012 colors of the oasis Kudos to Robin Updike for her article "Colors of the Oasis" in Volume 35, No. 5. Because of her article, my visit to Washington, D.C.'s Textile Museum was greatly enriched. The weavers of Central Asia with their mastery of colors and patterns certainly impacted the lovers of tie-die made popular in the 1960s, although few realize that ikats reached their zenith in nineteenth-century Bukhara on the Silk Road. The exquisite craftsmanship and superior construction