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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    By Charlaine Harris Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Ace Books, 2009 Genres: Mystery, fantasy, dark fantasy, contemporary fantasy, faerie tale, paranormal, paranormal mystery, romance, paranormal romance, vampire Series: Southern Vampire Mysteries (Sookie Stackhouse); 9 ISBN: 9780441017157 Intended audience: Adult Number of pages: 312 Setting: Bon Temps, LA Time period: Contemporary Plot summary: Werewolves and…

  • The Night Bookmobile

    By Audrey Niffenegger Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Abrams, 2010 Genres: General fiction, short stories Format: Graphic novel Series: “The Night Bookmobile is the first installment of a much larger work, The Library, which has its origins in a dream I had as a teenager” (from the first page of “After Words” at the…

  • Neuromancer

    By William Gibson Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Ace Books, 1984 Genres: Science fiction, cyberpunk Series: Sprawl Trilogy; 1 ISBN: 0441569595 Audience: Adult Number of pages: 271 Settings: Chiba City, the Sprawl (Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Axis), Istanbul, & Freeside Time period: An unspecified time in the future Plot summary: Case, an ex-cowboy, is hanging out…

  • Catching Fire

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  • Bones of Faerie

    By Janni Lee Simner Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Random House, 2009 Genres: Fantasy, dark fantasy, faerie tale, dystopian Series: A sequel – Faerie Winter – is due to be published in April, 2011 ISBN: 9780375845635 Audience: Young adult Number of pages: 247 Setting: St. Louis, Missouri area Time period: About twenty years in…

  • The Walking Dead Book One

    By Robert Kirkman – creator, writer, letter, Tony Moore – penciler, inker, gray tones, Charlie Adlard – penciler, inker, Cliff Rathburn – gray tones Place: Publisher & Year: Berkeley, CA: Image Comics, Inc., 2010 Genre: Horror Format: Graphic novel Series: The Walking Dead ISBN: 9781582406190 Audience: Adult Number of pages: Unpaginated Setting: Kentucky, Atlanta, GA…

  • Spirits that Walk in Shadow

    By Nina Kiriki Hoffman Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Viking, 2006 Genres: Fantasy, contemporary fantasy, dark fantasy ISBN: 9780670060719 Audience: Young adult Number of pages: 306 Setting: Spores Ferry, Oregon Time period: Contemporary Plot summary: Jaime Locke is worried about starting her first year of college.  As a member of a magical family, she…

  • The Exile: an Outlander Graphic Novel

    By Diana Gabaldon; illustrated by Hoang Nguyen Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Del Rey, 2010 Genre: Historical fiction, fantasy, adventure, time travel fantasy, historical fantasy, romance Format: Graphic novel Series: Outlander Graphic Novels; 1 ISBN: 9780345505385 Audience: Adult Number of pages: Unpaginated Setting: Scotland Time period: 1743 Plot summary: Young Jaime Fraser returns to…

  • Death Masks

    By Jim Butcher Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Roc, 2003 Genres: Fantasy, contemporary fantasy, urban fantasy, dark fantasy, mystery, paranormal mystery, paranormal, vampire Series: The Dresden Files; 5 ISBN: 9780451459404 Audience: Adult Number of pages: 374 (378 including an excerpt from Blood Rites). Setting: Chicago, IL Time period: Contemporary Plot summary: When Harry wanted…

  • Speak

    By Laurie Halse Anderson Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1999 Genre: General fiction ISBN: 9780374371524 Audience: Young adult Number of pages: 198 Setting: Syracuse, NY Time period: Late 1990s Plot summary: Melinda Sordino starts her first year of high school as an outcast for calling the cops at an end of…

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