Ra's Spiral Path

Welcome to Ra’s Spiral Path

The Website of Sarah J Batchelder

Writer < Weaver > Storyteller

Woven Bits
Woven raven over a mountainside
A small portion from “Ancestors Calling” (2025)

Writer

I have written in many types of formats – academic, informational, and fictional.

I once wrote a rhyming play about the summer reading program where I worked and performed it with a coworker and puppets to an elementary school. The kids loved it.

My portfolio can be found here.

Weaver

I weave tapestries and baskets made from discarded wires and often use repurposed items and upcycled textiles in my work. I also weave belts on an inkle loom, triangles on a triangle loom, and am learning some other looms.

I offer local personalized instruction on tapestry and inkle looms for those in the Tucson area. Please contact me here if you are interested.

Moon Views

  • Woven in 2023 in Jamesport, NY
  • My first completed circular weaving
  • Selected for a group exhibition in 2025
A three panel (connected) weaving of a mountain landscape and waterfall by fiber artist, Sarah Batchelder

Ancestors Calling

  • An experimental pulled warp tapestry
  • My weaving almost always include repurposed materials.
  • I honor my planet and her life forms in the materials I choose to work with.
A pulled warp tapestry of a Sonoran mountain kingsnake woven by Sarah Batchelder

Sylvia Snake

  • A pulled warp tapestry woven in three parts – head, middle, and tail.
  • Sylvia is a Sonoran Mountain Kingsnake.
  • Her retractable tongue is made from cable wire.

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  • Afterlife

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    Are there as many different afterlifes and death realms as living ones? I hope so. There’s no reason to think that there isn’t. I hope my dad finds his way to a good one. I hope his spirit becomes as strong as it once was. I hope he visits me in a dream sometime. I…

  • A sense of bliss?

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    After so much uncertainty, I’m pleased that there seems to be some sort of plan(s) developing….

  • Something’s got to give

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    And I don’t want it to be my back! What a morning – what a day. I arrived at my place of work this morning about ten minutes early because I didn’t need to drop my son off any where. The spring break camp I had signed him up for this week cancelled after the…

  • A conversation with my child….

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    So I learned something a few nights ago from talking with my six year old son:

  • Who steals a ladder from a single mother?

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    To the thief that stole my really nice fiberglass ladder that I saved up for years to buy on sale with a coupon:

  • A slow start

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    This year is speeding by day to day. Work on creative projects is going ever so slowly. If I truly want to post more often here I need to rework my brain into thinking smaller…

  • A Tiny Triumph

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    After watching Jenny Lawson’s TED talk about sharing stories, it really made me want to try to find time to share stories more regularly. So here goes…

  • New year, new chair

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    I spent a good portion of the day today working on an idea I’ve had for a while. I had a busted chair and some busted garden hoses, so I put them together into something comfortable and functional.

  • Bad Timing

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    I saw my son’s father today crossing the street as I was waiting to turn left at the intersection.

  • At the famous writer’s house…

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    Early Wednesday morning I had a dream that I was wandering around a very famous writer’s estate. I sometimes ran into another person or people that I knew and often went off searching for my son – who kept wandering off. At some point I found and followed the writer to his very out of…

A close up of wolf eyes from a tapestry woven by Sarah Batchelder.