When the winter issue of Fiber Art Now arrived in the mail, I couldn’t wait to take a look. As I paged through it, I found myself rereading each article and appreciating the photos as if seeing them for the first time.

I had seen PDFs of every article as part of our editorial process, but in print, the artwork, the detail photos, and the stories came to life. As impressive as the artwork had been on screen—and how stunning the layouts were—both were even more so in print.  

Although you can enlarge an image on your computer, unless you have a large screen, you only see part of an image at one time. Moving in and out on a page takes away from the overall effect of the art, as well as of the article itself. It’s just not the same.

It got me thinking about the photos. When we ask artists for photos of their work, we request high-resolution ones, but there’s more to it than that. Artwork shot in poor lighting or on a really busy background doesn’t cut it, even if it’s high-resolution. The photos in this issue were able to be shown so large because the designer had good-quality photos to work with.