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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  • A Kiss of Shadows

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    By Laurell K. Hamilton Place: Publisher, Year: New York : Ballantine Books, 2000 & 2006 Genres: Fantasy, contemporary fantasy, dark fantasy, paranormal romance, romantic suspense, mystery, occult fiction, erotic fiction, horror Series: Meredith Gentry series ; 1 ISBN: 0345490657, 0345423402 Intended audience: Adult Number of pages: 435 Setting: Los Angeles, CA and the Unseelie Court…

  • Hard Truth

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    By Nevada Barr Place: Publisher & Year: New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2005 Genre: Mystery Series: Anna Pigeon mysteries; 13 ISBN: 0399152415 Intended audience: Adult Number of pages: 324 Setting: Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado Time period: early 2000’s Plot summary: In Rocky Mountain National Park, three girls disappeared during a church retreat at Fern…

  • Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit

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    By Nahoko Uehashi [translated by Cathy Hirano] Illustrated by Yuko Shimizu Place: Publisher, Year: New York : Arthur A. Levine Books, 2008 Genres: Fantasy, adventure, mythic fiction ISBN: 9780545005425, 0545005426 Series: Moribito; 1 Intended audience: Tweens, young adults Number of pages: 248+ Setting: Reminiscent of ancient Japan Time period: Medieval time period Plot summary: As…

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