The Loom is spoken of as the process through which possibility is incorporated into the greater pattern of existence. The image is useful, though no metaphor can fully contain what it describes.
In Ialean accounts of new life, a family's resonance forms a new chord; the Loom adds that chord to the Weave, and it is sung to Aethercryst. The shard's answer is part of a relationship, not a declaration that a person has been manufactured from nothing.