Some light reading material, for anyone else as obsessed as I am:
Robertson, Emma et al (2008). ‘And Spinning so with Voices Meet, Like Nightingales they Sung Full Sweet’: Unravelling Representations of Singing in Pre-Industrial Textile Production. Cultural and Social History 5(1): 11-31
Tuck, Anthony (2006). Singing the Rug: Patterned Textiles and the Origins of Indo-European Metrical Poetry. American Journal of Archaeology 110(4): 539-550
_____ (2009). Stories at the Loom: Patterned Textiles and the Recitation of Myth in Euripides. Arethusa 42(2): 151-159
threads of song 