Text Cues:

...For days and months she worked, her shuttle flashing through the threads. (P 8)

After two years, blood dripped from her eyes Into her hand. Down her hand onto the shuttle it ran, and...(P.9)

Picture Cues:

Widow weaving, thread attached to a shuttle which is in her hand. (p.7)

Close up of hands weaving the brocade with the blood flowing down onto the shuttle and dripping onto the thread. (p. 10)

Think Aloud:

The picture provides a word-for-word image of the text. We can see what the shuttle looks like and can infer that it is the tool that is used to move the thread back and forth across the loom.

The verb "shuttle" is also used in conjunction with transporting people back and forth - in space, on a bus...

"Brocade"

Text Cues:

"...She could weave beautiful brocades that seemed to come alive under her fingers.
One day, while she was at the market selling some at her weavings, she saw a most wonderous painting..." (p.1)
"Why don't you do a weaving of the painting? Your weavings are so lifelike that, as you work on it every day, It will be almost like living there..."

... "You are no longer making brocades to sell..."(p.8)

"What a beautiful brocade It was..." (continues to describe brocade...)(p.9)

Picture Cues:

Market scene showing widow holding a brocade, displaying it to customers who appear interested in buying It. (p. 3-4)

Close up of hands weaving the brocade. (p. 10)

Widow with finished brocade Milch matches the description on page 9 of the text.
(p. 10-11)

Think Aloud:

The author uses the word Brocade and Weavings to indicate that the widow makes and sells.

Also, there seem to be connections between the words in the story and the illustrations that help us to understand what a brocade is. The text on pages 1 and 8 and the picture on pages 3 and 4 refer to the widow selling the weavings.

The illustration on page 11 and 12 matches the description given on page 9.