The Threaded Paths Project

INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE:

Threaded Paths: An International Textile Initiative-

🧵 Call for Submissions: — no experience necessary.

I’d love for you to be part of Threaded Paths: Global Stories in Thread, a collaborative textile project inviting artists, non-artists, craft folks, stitchers, and first-timers alike to map their journeys, memories, and movements through fabric and thread.

No experience is necessary, just a story to share.

Each piece submitted will join a growing textile installation of global experiences, tracing footsteps, migrations, daily commutes, and abstract reflections on movement and place. Footsteps become stitches. Threads become maps. Fabrics become memory.

This is more than a sewing project. It’s about what we carry, the stories we wear, the lands we’ve crossed, and the people who’ve walked before us.

✧ Project Overview

Threaded Paths invites people from all backgrounds: artists and non-artists alike, to create a small stitched work that maps/charts a meaningful journey. Whether it's a personal migration, a daily route, or an imagined landscape, each piece helps build a shared visual story.

The project celebrates collective storytelling through textiles and mixed media. Together, our work will bridge geographies, honor histories, and create a tangible record of lived experience—one stitch at a time.

How to Participate

Create a small, stitched piece that reflects a journey be it personal, ancestral, daily, or imaginary. Your piece might represent:

• A migration story

• A daily route or neighborhood walk

• A place you once called home

• An abstract reflection on movement, displacement, or return

Materials & Techniques:

Totally open. Embroidery, appliqué, quilting, hand-sewing, mixed media collage —whatever tells your story best.

Size: Maximum 10 x 10 inch square (Unframed and unmounted. Edges may be raw or finished.)

Creative freedom:

Fabric is the base,any type of fabric but you can add paper, paint, metal, buttons, found objects, beads—whatever holds meaning for you.

Submission Guidelines

Please include the following when you submit your piece:

• Your Name

• Email

• Location

• Occupation (or how you'd like to be described)

• Date of the piece

• Title of your piece

• A short reflection (1–3 sentences) on what your piece represents

You may submit in one of two ways:

📦 By Mail: Mail your clean, dry, securely packaged piece to the address provided upon request. (Max size: 10 x 10 inches, unmounted) - preferred

Mailing Address:

Val Ramshur

321 Park Ave #5, Weehawken, NJ USA 07086

📸 Digitally: Email a clear photograph of your piece along with your reflection and information- not as preferable

📅 Deadline & Contact Info

Submissions are due by Sept 1, 2025

Email for digital submissions, mailing instructions, or any questions:📧 valramshur@gmail.com

Any submissions received after this date will be included in the next exhibition Spring 2o26.

📸 Exhibition & Documentation

Every submission will contribute to a large-scale textile installation that weaves together global stories of place and movement. The project will be documented with photographs and artist reflections, creating an archive of stories and art, with the potential for publication.

This traveling exhibition will debut in September 2025 during New York Textile Month, with a second exhibition scheduled for Spring 2026.

You can find details, mailing instructions and creative prompts here:👉 https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ApjoQYsNdIxktfF4NtXwRr2hq83BavMf?usp=sharing

Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/threadedpaths/

Looking forward to stitching stories together,

-Valerie Ramshur

Artist and Project Curator