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Conversations with Joan Mack ETV Radio
Interview with Founder Terry Helwig
Charleston, SC
September 6, 2007
Want to know more about The Thread Project? Listen as founder Terry Helwig shares what inspired The Thread Project and how it has evolved over the course of six years.
Debut of One-Act Play about The Thread Project
Charleston, SC
September 8, 2007
The Thread Narratives: Real Threads and True Stories made its debut at the International Exhibit of The Thread Project: One World, One Cloth at City Gallery at Waterfront Park in Charleston, SC. The one-act play, written by Terry Helwig and Carol Anderson, tells how a single thread evolved into an international project; the play also brings to life 74 of the thousands of letters sent to the project over the course of five years. If interested in staging a performance of the play, contact threads@threadproject.com.
Appearance on the New Morning Show
New York, NY
January 11, 2007
Host Timberly Whitfield interviews Terry Helwig on the Hallmark Channel’s New Morning Show. The interview follows up a segment taped about The Thread Project in 2004. To update viewers, Wakefield asks Helwig about the Project’s progress and future. The show will air March 12, 2007.
First Podcast about The Thread Project
Seattle, WA
December 16, 2006
Syne Mitchell, writer and host of WeaveCast, interviewed founder Terry Helwig about the special threads that have been woven into The Thread Project: One World, One Cloth. The podcast aired December 16, 2006 and can be downloaded at WeaveCast, Episode 11 (Fine Threads with Lillian Whipple). The interview occurs approximately 7 minutes into the podcast.
Good Housekeeping Shares The Thread Project With Its Readers
November 2006
Good Housekeeping shared The Thread Project with its 25 million readers in the November 2006 issue of Good Housekeeping (p.125).
Founder Terry Helwig Speaks at 9/11 Remembrance Service Near Ground Zero
New York, NY
September 11, 2006
The cloths of The Thread Project hung at St. Paul’s Chapel, across from Ground Zero, from September 1 -- November 30, 2006. It is estimated that over 400,000 people were able to view the cloths. Terry Helwig spoke at the Remembrance Service marking the 5-year anniversary of 9/11; excerpts of her talk and video of the cloths can be downloaded at The Trinity website Video Library episode 9/11/06 5th Anniversary: Moving Forward with Healing. In it’s entirely, the video gives a history and overview of 9/11. Terry’s portion begins at 7:36 minutes into the video. Another video about the Project, at the same link, is the September 8, 2006 episode called Threads Project. This video incorporates footage of the cloths hanging at St. Paul’s Chapel, combined with footage from the New Morning video that aired on the Hallmark Channel in 2004.
Pilgrimage to New York City to View Thread Project Exhibit
Atlanta, GA
September 2006
Writer Keith Resseau travels to New York City to see the cloths hanging in St. Paul’s Chapel across from Ground Zero. Somewhere, woven into one of the cloths, is a thread she herself contributed…(more)
Panel Presented to Ambassador of Lesotho
Lesotho, Africa
March 2006
One panel of Sophia’s Mantle, woven by several weaving cooperatives in Lesotho, Africa, was presented to the Ambassador of Lesotho before being sent to the United States. The Lesotho panel has hung in the United Nations as part of an Indigenous Exhibit and was a part of the exhibit at St. Paul’s Chapel for the 5th anniversary of 9/11/06. Learn more about the Lesotho weaving cooperatives…(more)
Australian Weavers Join The Thread Project
Australia
May, 2006
Helen Halpin, editor of Weavers Forum, writes about securing weavers in Australia for The Thread Project. Her article appears in the TEXTILE FIBRE FORUM (issue #82, the mid-May issue for 2006).
Thread Project Brings together First Nations and Euro-Canadians
Sioux Lookout, Ontario
March 21, 2005
The Thread Project is Weaving Reconciliation and is part of the race relations week in Sioux Lookout, Canada…(more).
Thread Project Weaver Kate Robertson featured on KIFI Local News 8 in Idaho Falls
Idaho Falls, Idaho
March 2, 2005
Thread Project weaver Kate Robertson was featured on television weaving a panel of the green World Cloth called Weaving Reconciliation.
Praise from Novelist Sue Monk Kidd
January 2005
Acclaimed author Sue Monk Kidd, who wrote the Secret Life of Bees, has written glowingly in her January reflections about The Thread Project: One World, One Cloth. Sue writes, “When you stand in the presence of these cloths it is like stepping into the epicenter of hope. The cloths inspire a sense of how potent and majestic a symbol can be when it erupts from the great heart of the people of the earth”. Read what Sue has to say…(more)
Hallmark Channel
New York, NY
June 9 and July 28, 2005
The Hallmark Channel's New Morning Show will air a segment about the Thread Project: One World, One Cloth. Founder Terry Helwig shares the project's mission and the special stories and threads that are being woven into the cloth. Also featured is fiber artist Susan Hull Walker weaving a panel of Threaded Harmony on her loom.
Spirituality & Health
New York, NY
July/August 2004
In the article “Materialize Your Visions,” founder Terry Helwig details seven steps she used to create The Thread Project: One World, One Cloth. If you have an idea in the making, you may be interested in reading what Terry has to say…(more)
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