Jennifer Mayster, inventor of the Mayster Braille Loom, visited with residents and weaving staff to see first-hand our woven designs. Resident weavers are part of a pen-pal program with a school in New York, and will send their word creations to students as a braille learning tool.

For this project, residents wove braille text that describes their interests on the Mayster loom, which mimics the Perkins Brailler key design. Six different fibers are strung on the loom, and represent the six different dots of the Braille cell. For the residents, this project has been a fun way to learn and practice Braille and for some, has served as an introduction to the craft of weaving.