Tom Phillips, with the assistance of Alice Wood, created this quilt from fragments of fabric from costumes Phillips was designing for "Winter's Tale" at the Globe Theatre in London. Phillips writes, "For Autolycus I had supervised the making of a large patchwork cloak and was fascinated to see how humdrum pieces of the cloths of the world rather than of heaven when juxtaposed sang out as rich and rare. Some of the 'dye and drab' of the cloak of Autolycus started off this present piece." The text is from a poem by the Irish poet, William Butler Yeats titled "He wishes for the cloths of heaven." The poem reads, "Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, - Enwrought with the golden and silver light, - The blue and the dim and the dark cloths - Of night and light and half-light, - I would spread the cloths under your feet - But I, being poor, have only my dreams; - I have spread my dreams beneath your feet; - Tread softly because you tread on my dreams..." The letters of the poem are placed in a circular pattern within the quilt. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.