For today’s blog post, we return once again to that upper corner of Berks County known locally as the Eck, pressed against the Blue Mountain ridge of the Appalachians. Rising above the farmland is one of the region’s most recognizable summits called the Pinnacle, or Zinnekopp in Pennsylvania Dutch.

Just off my loom are table runners that I wove in a goose eye twill variant. The pattern is based on a diamond patterned tablecloth owned by the Keim family who lived in Berks County’s Oley Valley.