View the Storycloth Database

The Storycloth Database, a project headed by Lise Raye Garlock, CTP’s Director of Education and Art Therapy, houses information on collections of narrative textiles relating to human rights. Some collections are private, others are owned by organizations and universities. The Database is designed to grow and become a resource for anyone interested in stories made in cloth that portray human struggles — historical and contemporary, personal and universal — and how people use sewing images to convey important events.

 

Washington Post Article on Common Threads Project

Some trauma really is unspeakable. So these women are sewing their stories, instead.

 

Read Webster Geneva’s article on the Fabric of Healing Exhibition

On 26th June 2020, to mark the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, Common Threads Project launched a 3D exhibition of story cloths made by survivors of SGBV in conflict situations.

 

Watch the video project that started it all

Over a decade ago, psychotherapist Rachel Cohen created a video project documenting the cross-cultural practice of sewing unspeakable traumas into cloth. This video was the seed that grew into Common Threads Project, an international not-for-profit.