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, Weaver, and Storyteller

Weaving words and wisdom

Intuitive Tapestry Weaver

I can keep big pictures and stories in mind, while refining details.

Lifelong Learner

As a mother of a tween, educational specialist, and former children’s librarian, I strive to make learning fun.

Copy Editor and Writer

Words matter. And how they are presented matters as well.

Solution Oriented DIY’er

I practice by doing and experimenting and accept failure as a part of the learning process.

Maker of Quirky Items

I find joy in the strange and weird. Do you too? I now have a POD store.

Brewer, Gardener, Hiker

I reclaim ancient knowledge, spaces, and ways to connect with previously hidden ancestral paths.

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 primarily weave tapestries and baskets made from discarded wires and often use repurposed items and upcycled textiles in my work. I am also learning how to use other types of looms – rigid heddle, inkle, and a Swedish counterbalance floor loom.

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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  • The Sisters Brothers

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    By Patrick deWitt Place: Publisher & Year: New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2011 Genres: Western, historical fiction, cowboy noir ISBN: 9780062041265 Audience: Adult Number of pages: 328 Setting: Oregon City, Oregon Territory, & California (including San Francisco) Time period: 1851 Plot summary: Charlie and Eli sisters are known throughout the Oregon Territory and California as killers…

  • The Leopard

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    By Jo Nesbø; translated by Don Bartlett Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011 Genres: Mystery, suspense,  thriller, crime thriller, police procedural, Scandinavian noir Series: Harry Hole; 8 ISBN: 9780307595874 Audience: Adult Number of pages: 513* Setting: Hong Kong, China, Oslo,  Norway, Kigali, Rwanda & Goma, The Congo Time period: Contemporary Plot…

  • Habibi

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    By Craig Thompson Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Pantheon Books, 2011 Genres: General fiction, mythic fiction Format: Graphic novel ISBN: 9780375424144 Audience: Adult Number of pages: 665 (672 includes notes and author description) Setting: A Middle-eastern desert, an unnamed village, and Wanatolia Time period: No set time period –seems like the past, present, and…

  • The Road to Lisdoonvarna

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    By Charles de Lint Place: Publisher & Year: Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2001 Genre: Mystery, hard boiled crime fiction ISBN: 9781892284914 Audience: Adult Number of pages: 190 Setting: Ottawa, Canada Time period: mid 1980s Plot summary: Private investigator, Jake Swann, has a big heart, especially when it comes to his friends.  When Jake discovers that…

  • The Redbreast

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    By Jo Nesbø; translated by Don Bartlett Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Harper, c2000, 2011 Genres: Mystery, suspense, thriller, crime thriller, police procedural, Scandinavian noir, historical fiction Series: Harry Hole; 3 ISBN: 9780062068422 Audience: Adult Number of pages: 553 (563 including an excerpt from The Devil’s Star) Setting: Oslo, Norway, Leningrad, Russia, and Vienna,…

  • The Shining

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    By Stephen King Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Pocket Books, c 1977, 2001 Genre: Horror ISBN: 9781439570616 Audience: Adult Number of pages: 683 Settings: The Overlook Hotel & Boulder, CO, Stovington, VT, St. Petersburg, FL Time period: Late 1970s Plot summary: Jack Torrance has made mistakes in life – most recently, losing his job…

  • American Gods

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    By Neil Gaiman Place: Publisher & Year: New York: HarperTorch, c2001. Genres: Fantasy, contemporary fantasy, mythic fiction ISBN: 9780380789030 Audience: Adult Number of pages: 592 Setting: USA – Eagle Point, Indiana;  Chicago & Cairo, Illinois; House on the Rock & Lakeside, Wisconsin; South Dakota; Lebanon, Kansas; Virginia; Lookout Mountain/ Rock City, Georgia; Fort Pierce, Florida;…

  • Silver Borne

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    By Patricia Briggs Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Ace Books, 2008 Genres: Fantasy, contemporary fantasy, paranormal, mystery, paranormal mystery Series: Mercy Thompson; 5 ISBN: 9780441018192 Intended audience: Adult Number of pages: 342 Setting: Tri-cities (Richland, Kennewick, & Pasco), WA Time period: Contemporary Plot summary: Mercy is still adjusting to pack life; this is made…

  • Daughter of Lir

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    By Judith Tarr Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Forge, 2001 Genres: Fantasy, historical fantasy, historical fiction Series: Epona; 3 ISBN: 9780312876166 Audience: Adult Number of pages: 415 Setting: City of Lir, Village of Long Ford, World’s End, Sea of Grass (open steppe) Time period: Prehistory – Neolithic time period Plot summary: When Rhian is…

  • The Keeper of Lost Causes

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    By Jussi Adler-Olsen; translated by Lisa Hartford Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Dutton, 2011 Genres: Mystery, police procedural, Scandinavian noir, suspense, thriller, crime thriller Series: Department Q; 1 ISBN: 9780525952480 Audience: Adult Number of pages: 396 Setting: Copenhagen, Denmark Time period: Contemporary Plot summary: Carl Mørck used to be one of Copenhagen’s best homicide…

A portion of "a map of dragons" by fiber artist, Sarah Batchelder