This article asserts the significance of the portrayal of the political art of statesmanship as weaving, and aims to show how this image emphasizes two main aspects of the political art of statesmanship. Firstly, the image implies a three-dimensionality, both through the process of weaving and through the thickness of the protective fabric this produces, that in turn indicates the vital aspect of corporeality in politics. Secondly, weaving as a paradigmatic example of the art of statesmanship presents a way of incorporating different entities and joining diverse threads into a cohesive unity, without reducing them to a form of sameness as mere mathematical counting would. These two aspects are in turn connected to an emphasis on the importance in good statesmanship of recognizing the specificity of the occasion (kairos) and the variety and difference of the innumerable qualities to be interlaced in weaving the fabric of a good society.

本文主张编织政治家政治艺术的重要性，并旨在展示这种形象如何强调政治家政治艺术的两个主要方面。首先，通过编织过程和由此产生的保护性织物的厚度，图像都暗示了三维性，这反过来又表明了政治中重要性的重要方面。其次，作为政治家艺术范式的一个例子，编织提出了一种将不同的实体结合在一起并将不同的线程连接成一个凝聚的统一体的方法，而又不会像单纯的数学计算那样将它们简化为相同的形式。这两个方面又与强调在良好的政治风气中认识到这种场合的特殊性的重要性有关（kairos），以及编织良好社会结构时需要交织的无数种特质的多样性和差异。