'Textiles are more than just woven items'

In her article, Gloria Elizabeth Chacón claims that textiles are more than just woven items, written works can also be classified as textiles. She states: “Moving past the metaphor in their poems, they call for decolonizing our perception of the textile as a non-modern craft and advocate for an understanding of it as a literary form” (Chacón 59). What is your interpretation of this claim and how does this broaden your view of textiles?