BRINGING PEOPLE TOGETHER. HONOURING PEOPLES STORIES.  
A journey taken as an Individual, Family, Group, or Community
in the spirit of creativity, belonging and connection. 

STORY CLOTH CONNECTION © 2018.     All contents copyright Story Cloth Connection. All Rights Reserved.  
​   Please respect our originality and Story Cloth vision. 

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Story Cloths are bespokely made with wide canvas fabric, lovingly prepared for you, to order, with a unique ​staining process.
Once you have ownership of your cloth, you can begin to enjoy making your endearing marks on its surface by using a unique, yet simple bleaching technique, applied with paint brushes.
Your own unique symbols, and their meaning, become permanently embedded into the cloth. 

The cloth, along with personal guidance and the unique marking techniques are all provided when you purchase your own personalised storycloth and engage in its accompanying
supportive creative session with your guide Tania Budd.

NB - As you may appreciate, we choose not to disclose the staining method to help protect our unique vision,originality and continuim.  We happily share that there is no paint involved, making it less intimidating, very do-able,
​and inclusional for all ages and abilities.

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 Whats included when I purchase a 
Storycloth package?

Should you wish to book a Story cloth package to begin your journey, whether it be an an
INDIVIDUAL cloth  
or  a
GROUP cloth,
your package will include :

*  a personalised guided session at any set location
* your own kit to keep, including:
* custom pre-made made cloth ( Size to order )
*  tote bag 
*tools and materials
*instruction 
* guidance throughout your journey

In the session we will help you to intitiate your own cloth where you will gain
an understanding of how you go about it, and what role it will play for you
​as a beautiful, simple, and creative way to collect and create your own visual story.

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"A simple yet enriching pictorial way to share who you are and capture
all that matters most to you.
​ Make your natural marks and symbols and preserve your
stories and moments in time forever."  Tania Budd

Make a booking enquiry

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Creating your own Story cloth
...enjoy the journey of creative connection

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​The creation of your story cloth is a journey, an experience that happens for as long or as little as you choose.
​As you journey with your cloth, it will naturally come into connection with
people, nature, places, experience, events, yarning - life. 
 These connections and encounters are carried  like a treasury of lifes moments on your cloth . The spirit and essence of yourself and those around you is embued into the cloth and carried through  the symbols and marks left by their gestures that grow outwards from the centre in kaleidescope growth on your cloth. 

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Your cloth becomes more sacred or signifcant to you as its contents and meaning grow over time, through a rich collection of symbols and marks that are gradually captured together
in one place.
Your cloth becomes a container of life's stories, encounters and memories, 
and calls you to consider in which way are you going to record them.
Is it a way to .....
 Re-collect & remember them?
​ Re-create & transform them?
Re- tell & and heal them?
or
is it a way to envisage new encounters and grow new memories?

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Gifts of creating your own story cloth.

* A timeless and pictorial way to thread life's ordinary
and extraordinary moments together.

* Embark on your own journey, enjoy the connections, have a yarn, collect experience, record memories.

* Draw on stories past and present or
generate imagery of a new story to behold.

 * Capture and share stories in symbols & marks is an age old form of non verbal communication.

 *Exit the distraction of technology momentarily and  enter a
​world of sponteneity , wonder and discovery.

* Get back to real wholehearted sensory connection... 
one moment at a time.

* Sit together, slow the pace, and immerse  in moments of  connection in joyful playful creativity and see what
journeys and stories naturally emerge.

                                                  Image below : The original story cloth - made in 2012 at Ularu, Central Desert.

This Group story cloth symbols were  made by the women on Denise Greenaways  Ancient Womens Buisness retreat at Ularu in 2012.
The women named it "The pond" . It is the story of unconditional love and oneness of the collective experience.

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Story cloth connection offers people of all ages and life experiences a unique visual way to capture and tell their personal story. 
What will the symbols & marks of your cloth behold for you  now  and carry into the future?

​Story cloths are textile canvas cloths that are saturated with narrative , from the chain of events that lead to
their creation and the people that you invite to make their marks on them to the stories told by the pieces themselves.

By creating your own personalised story cloth you can capture , create and share what matters most to you, your family, your group, your tribe, or community. 
​What meaning or purpose will
your cloth hold individually or collectively ?

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Photos above : Personal nature story journey 2015-2016. In gratitude of natural world and connection to place.

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By using a very simple creative technique, your symbols and playful marks can be made onto the cloth surface.
Your cloth is a  tangible & permanent way to ensure your stories live on .

The creation of a story cloth is like a journey and it can be done by anyone of any age and ability -  no artistic skill required. If you can draw a line or a circle then you can make marks on a story cloth.

You get to  choose how  long it might take to complete a pictorial journey.  Take as much or as little time as you need and at your own pace. 

There is no right or wrong way in how you go about
it .You just need to begin in the centre and the rest is an outward growth of
​an  organically unfolding story of your happenings , events, dreams, visions, values.
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Approach it with curiosity and wonder. Consider its undertaking as a joyful expressive exploration that is imbued with  your own intent and meaning .Have fun with it .

Folding into a canvas tote your story cloth becomes transportable enabling you to take it indoors or outdoors wherever you go, thus​ allowing your project to be accessible and experienced with joy and ease.

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Recent story cloth journey's

There are different ways you can undertake a story cloth journey. It may be that you want to make it a personal journey , or do it together as a group or family or bring your tribe or community together to make your marks about what you stand for.
​ Have a peak at some examples here:

Personal cloth 

     Family cloth 

Group cloth 

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 Purpose, meaning and role

Your story cloth can hold a different purpose , meaning or role to you, unique to its creator.
I wonder what meaning or purpose might hold to you?
I wonder what role your cloth will play?
You may not know this straight away and thats ok , perhaps its simply  matter of beginning and trusting in the unkown and  seeing how it reveals itself to you.
Here are a few roles to comtemplate for now ....
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story teller

story maker

Whist your invited people make marks on your cloth alongside you, their stories will naturally flow and be told, this way the cloth is already  generating  story telling.

​The cloth can hold a specific intent which you have chosen to guide your story cloths journey. This story  is remembered and shared each time the cloth is unfolded. 

Each time the cloth is revisted the story is organically narrated a different way to the last. 

This way of telling stories through symbols is an age old tradition by many cultures of the world. It is not only fun for adults but also for children who can learn to orate their own interpretation of the pictorial symbols that have been embeded into  the cloth.
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We tell new stories by  the way we newly imagine them. In generating significant symbols and visual imagery, assuredly holds our focus for future horizons.

Our life  is made up of many moments we create and when threaded together our story is woven.

Essentially as a story maker , you are making a new story by the symbols that you choose to notice and  capture.

In life, our intention, our vision becomes our reality. Story cloth can capture that vision through symbols made assiting us  to be a little more mindful and become aware of our conscious thought and focus.


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story keeper

story circle 

A way to capture your story & what matters most forever.

​Symbols are drawn on the cloths surface and corresponding breif notes  are written briefly on the back of the cloth. A beautiful way to pass stories on to family in years to come . 

​A cloth that keeps our stories - Story keeper recalls and remembers the past, helps us be present in the now.

To create a story circle cloth is so that when it is complete it symbolism will hold sacred, meaningful space as you sit and gather with family , freinds or  significant others .

Facilitators can create their own cloth to set temenos for their groups in circle work.  

Families or groups can create them to be a centre peice for gatherings, special occassions or traditions .
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Cloths can be created and used by practitoners of mindfullness, meditation or quiet reflection .
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Sitting  centre on your cloth  grounds you in stillness - a place for calm contemplation.