Welcome to Ra’s Spiral Path

The Website of Sarah J Batchelder

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

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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  • Which?

    Shall I weave or shall I write? Shall I weave or shall I write? It’s getting late at night. Shall I weave or shall I write? Both.

  • My Road

    I wrote this poem a very long time ago – I think it was in the year 1994. So, about 25 years ago. I liked it when I wrote it, but I liked it even better when I discovered that my friend liked it as well. It seems like a good poem to share here.…

  • My First Post

    Life is change. Change is life. After contemplating for months now, what new steps I could take for living my most awesome life, I finally took a big leap and bought myself some web space. As I get things figured out here, I am sure this space will evolve over time. Ideally, this will be…

  • The Journey Begins

    Thanks for joining me! Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton

  • Trusting One’s Gut

    So I’ve been checking out a lot of cookbooks from the library lately. For inspiration, health, and information. I’ve had low back pain for weeks which has just recently relented. And my gut instinct is telling me that at least part of it is related to diet.  I liked this one so much that I…

  • Raising my Frequency

    So I’ve been listening to an awesome book – You are a Badass at Making Money by Jen Sincero. I love this author and everything she has to say. I’ve checked out the book from the library and have been listening to it as much as I can while in the car – commuting, running errands,…

  • Not dead yet

    So today I found out that Carrie Fisher died. And then I found out that Richard Adams died as well…. I’m not sure which I’m more upset about.  I know I’ve seen Star Wars more often than I’ve read Watership Down, but Leia was never my favorite character. I always wanted to be Han or…

  • 2015????

    So 2015 is the year that I wrote absolutely zero, zilch, nada here…. Oh well.  It’s a new year.  I’m going to shoot for at least a couple of posts this year.  If I get this one published, I’ll be half-way there.

  • Soon to be cross-posted – a review of Humboldt

    So I finally got around to writing another blog posting for a book I read not too long ago.  I wrote it originally for my library’s blog – because it’s a good book and it hasn’t been checked out very much.  I’m posting the review here first – it won’t show up on Pima County…

  • It’s been awhile

    I’ve been busy with life.  Too busy to write about books I’ve been reading.  I’ve been busy finding and buying my first house, moving, (all while pregnant and working full time), giving birth, and raising my son.  He’s a beautiful boy. And while I’ve been busy with all of this, I’ve still been reading.  Just…

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