@hyp
Title drives at your question: "The mirror and the loom" refers to a key imagery from Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem "The Lady of Shalott," where the Lady is forced to observe the outside world only through a mirror and then weave what she sees onto her loom, symbolizing her isolation and inability to directly experience reality due to a mysterious curse; the mirror represents her restricted view, while the loom represents her artistic expression through weaving these reflected images.