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12/11/01 -- The Post and Courier, Charleston, SC
Excerpted from: Tying on to Mend a Torn World, by Elsa McDowell
One by one, they matched the end of a piece of embroidery floss to the end of a simple length of homespun yarn, a piece of ordinary string to some satin ribbon. Then they tied the ends together.
They tied carefully--as if the world depended on the knots being snug and fast. That’s because the women and men who tied the knots did so in hopes that The Thread Project: One World, One Cloth will eventually help mend the torn seams of the world...Skilled fiber artists tied on to not-so-nimble-fingered grandmothers, businesspeople and politicians.
Eventually, Helwig expects the thread will include those added by women in Afghanistan and in the Orient, by weavers in Africa and in Russia. Each link will be vital when the first world cloth “will be woven from the stories and threads of individuals of all colors and faiths from around the world.”
Terry Helwig isn’t a spinner or a weaver of fiber but a writer and human development specialist. As such, she is a weaver of dreams...Thread by thread, knot by knot, person by person, school by school, Terry Helwig is lengthening and strengthening the symbolic network to mend a tattered world.
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