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The Scarlet Thread and The Golden Cord: Thirteen Women of the Hebrew Scriptures
Edgar G. Boevé
The writers of the Hebrew Scriptures give great attention to the women. They were totally involved in the lives of their men and are often the driving force of their lives together. These women were the mothers of the leaders of lsrael, God's chosen people. The scarlet thread defines the place of those women in the royal line of David. Other women were essential to saving the nation of Israel, therefore, the golden cord.
The intent of the thirteen fabric art works is to interpret the essential character of each woman who contributed to the royal line of the preservation of lsrael by texture, color and design through diverse fabrics gathered from around the world.
Eve
"Mother of all living"
After eating of the forbidden tree, Adam and Eve "fled to the trees" to hide from God. The green background of growth in the paradise of plants and animals form the context of the great womb bursting from pain in childbirth. The entrance of sin in the world is depicted by the serpent of temptation-and the bite taken in the apple. The leaves transformed from green to yellow convey death that changed Adam and Eve's relationship with God and that of their descendants.
Both the scarlet thread and the golden cord proceed from the womb as the story of human kind unfolds.