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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  • The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest

    By Stieg Larsson, translated by Reg Keeland Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Knopf, c2007, 2010 Genre: Suspense, thriller, mystery Series: Millennium trilogy; 3 ISBN: 9780307269997 Intended audience: Adult Number of pages: 563 (plus 2 pages of notes) Setting: Stockholm and Göteborg, Sweden Time period: Contemporary – around 2005 Plot summary: Even as Lisbeth Salander…

  • Little Brother

    By Cory Doctorow Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Tor, c2008, 2010 Genres: Science fiction, general fiction ISBN: 9780765323118 Intended audience: Young adult Number of pages: 416 – includes 2 afterwards, a bibliography, acknowledgements, and excerpts from For the Win.  The story is 365 pages. Setting: San Francisco, CA and the Bay area Time period:…

  • Thereby Hangs a Tail

    By Spencer Quinn Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Atria Books, 2010 Genre: Mystery, humorous stories Series: Chet and Bernie Mysteries; 2 ISBN: 9781416585855 Intended audience: Adult Number of pages: 309 Setting: The Valley (an unnamed desert city somewhere between Las Vegas and New Mexico), Rio Loco, Clauson’s Wells, and Las Vegas, NV Time period:…

  • Heart’s Blood

    By Juliet Marillier Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Roc, 2009 Genres: Fantasy, historical fiction, historical fantasy, paranormal, romance, paranormal romance ISBN: 9780451462930 Intended audience: Adult Number of pages: 402 Setting: Whistling Tor & Market Cross, Ireland Time period: 12th century Plot summary: When Caitrin, a young female scribe, finally musters the courage to flee…

  • Summer Knight

    By Jim Butcher Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Roc, 2002 Genres: Fantasy, contemporary fantasy, urban fantasy, dark fantasy, mystery, paranormal mystery, paranormal Series: The Dresden Files; 4 ISBN: 9780451458926 Intended audience: Adult Number of pages: 371 Setting: Chicago, IL & where it meets Faerie Time period: Contemporary Plot summary: Harry Dresden has been feeling…

  • The Hummingbird’s Daughter

    By Luis Alberto Urrea Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Little, Brown, and Company, c2005, 2006 Genres: Historical fiction, magical realism Series: Not a series, but the author is currently working on a sequel to this book. ISBN: 9780316154529 Intended audience: Adult Number of pages: 499 Setting: Ocoroni, Sinaloa & Cabora (near Alamos), Sonora, Mexico…

  • Real Murders

    By Charlaine Harris Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Berkley Prime Crime, c1990, 2007 Genre: Mystery, cozy mystery (“with teeth” as described in an interview with Harris) Series: Aurora Teagarden Mysteries; 1 ISBN: 9780425218716 Intended audience: Adult Number of pages: 290 Setting: Lawrenceton, Georgia Time period: 1990ish Plot summary: When a small town librarian, Aurora…

  • Dog On It: A Chet and Bernie Mystery

    By Spencer Quinn Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Atria Books, 2009 Genres: Mystery, humorous stories Series: Chet and Bernie Mysteries; 1 ISBN: 9781416585831 Intended audience: Adult Number of pages: 305 Setting: An unnamed desert city in a valley somewhere between Las Vegas and New Mexico (presumably modeled on Phoenix) Time period: Contemporary Plot summary:…

  • Island of the Blue Dolphins

    By Scott O’Dell; narrated by Tantoo Cardinal Place: Publisher & Year: Santa Ana, CA : Listening Library, c1960, p2003 Genre: Historical fiction Format: Audio book ISBN: 9780307243164 Intended audience: Children – tweens Number of discs: 4 (about 5 hrs.) Setting: Ghalas-at (San Nicolas Island, Channel Islands, CA) Time period: Not stated, but likely early 1800’s…

  • Definitely Dead

    By Charlaine Harris Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Ace Books, c2006, 2007 Genres: Mystery, fantasy, dark fantasy, contemporary fantasy, paranormal, romance, paranormal romance, vampire Series: Southern Vampire Mysteries (Sookie Stackhouse); 6 ISBN: 9780441014910 Intended audience: Adult Number of pages: 324 (342 including an excerpt from the next book – All Together Dead) Setting: Bon…

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