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THE THREAD PROJECT
"One World - One Cloth"

A global initiative celebrating diversity, encouraging tolerance and promoting compassionate community.
founded and organised by Terry Helwig

Seven cloths with 7 panels and a different colour each, have been woven from threads gathered from thousands of people of all faiths, cultures and ideologies from 70 countries and seven continents.
The threads were pulled from the fabric of people’s every-day lives, from their clothing, fishing rods, shoes,
blankets, guitars and hundreds of other sources.
Some threads reflect tragic events such as those gathered on the Killing Fields of Cambodia, from 9/11 families and a Holocaust survivor. Other threads are spun with the joy of birth, marriage and celebration.
Every thread contributes to the hope of mending a tattered world. (written by Terry Helwig - link to the page is below).

This was my contribution in 2005, weaving one of the panels.


I am one of 4 weavers in Australia to weave a panel for the World Cloth.
The panel I wove belongs to the World Cloth called "DAWN LOOMING".


The Threads are coming in and are collecting in my basket.

Thank you to all those who gave and
sent threads for this project!
Measuring the warp out.

My warp is a beautiful saffron-orange colour
I am weaving a panel for the World Cloth called:

"DAWN LOOMING"

I'm using my 4 shaft Sheridan Table loom.
I had to take all heddles out of shaft 2 and
add to shaft 1 and 4 to have enough heddles
to do plain weave. Of course I have 3 packs of spare
heddles, but none were the right size.
( I *am* a Tapestry weaver after all :-)

As you can see all went well.
I started with the 8" plain weave,
which will be the pocket for the hanging rod.


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