Through the use of freehand machine embroidery and soluble materials, Meredith is creating the natural world anew. The delicate application of the simplest of stitches has been used to create wondrous embroidered networks that revere the beauty of life itself and inspire us to rejoice at the world we live in. 

- It was a huge influence on Japanese landscape - or sansui - art. From the time it was born, classical Chinese shan shui painters influenced the Japanese sansui artists and these Japanese painters used the same exact styles, themes, and viewpoints.

- However, over time, Japanese landscape paintings began to take on a distinct identity of their own. They began to use more color than Chinese paintings and the people started to become bigger than the landscape features! Also, sansui paintings took on the Japanese values of wabi sabi, which installed in the painting a sense of imperfect beauty.

- In Korea, the Chinese artists and styles of landscape were dominant in Joseon-era Korean landscape art. Many Korean painters painted landscapes very similar to those in Chinese paintings, with high, multi-layered mountains, tiny people, and breathtaking landscapes dotted with rivers, waterfalls, and buildings. When "true-view" rose in popularity, landscape paintings took on a distinct Korean identity, with Korean - rather than Chinese - landscapes and cultural meanings being painted.

- Thanks to the Silk Road, the influence of Chinese landscape art could be found as far away as Persia (modern-day Iran)! Ancient Persian artists borrowed many of the Chinese landscape painting techniques, such as layered mountains with outlines and craggy rocks and trees silhouetted on the mountainsides.

- These pigments were used to produce colors such as white, yellow, red and black from charcoal. Other colors were soon added such as smoky greys, sage greens and saltbush mauves. Many desert communities can be identified because of their use of strong primary colors, while other communities might use more muted styles. Even within regions there can be many variations.

- Today, however, modern artists may use a wide variety of colors.

- It consists of more than 1,100 volumes dating from the 8th to the early 20th century, containing roughly 1,800 texts primarily in Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman Turkish. The collection ranks among the largest and most significant of its kind in North America.

- Artistry in calligraphy, binding, illumination and illustration from the Ottoman period is particularly well represented, as is evidence documenting the transmission, reading, borrowing, purchase, and ownership of the manuscripts.