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Summer 2002 --WARP (Weave a Real Peace), Oklahoma City, OK
Excerpted from: New Member with a Mission, by Mary B. Kelly
One afternoon, Terry Helwig sat in my greenhouse, learning to spin. Using hand-carded wool in black, grey and white, she learned to treadle, control the spin and draft the fibers. But Helwig had another - more pressing goal. She was learning to make thread for the Thread Project: One World, One Cloth. While she spun hesitantly, she explained it all to me...
“After 9/11, I started The Thread Project: One World, One Cloth. Since that time hundreds of people, from around the world, have tied pieces of embroidery floss, ribbon, yarn, string, thin strips of cloth, etc., to someone else’s piece of thread. These threads are being combined to make one long strand called a "unity" thread. After thousands of people have "tied-on" the unity thread will be used as the weft thread and woven (by seven peace weavers) into a world cloth, much like a world flag...These cloths will celebrate the boldness of our cultural diversity and the unity of our human hearts. I envision these cloths someday hanging in nations throughout the world, reminding people that we are, ultimately, a global family of one.”
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