The Golden Thread Project is a celebration of folk song and the graphic arts. Collaborating with the English Folk Dance & Song Society we have created an exhibition which celebrates a seminal moment in folk history. 29 artists have created comic strips and illustrations based on this moment and on March 13th 2018 we are exhibiting this work at Cecil Sharp House in London.

With this campaign we aim to make enough money to publish a book, we would also like to create an online educational resource where people can learn about global folk cultures via beautiful artwork.The Golden Thread Project book is a 180-page full colour collection, adapting folk songs from the 1920s to today into comic strips by a dazzling array of creators from across the comics and printmaking spectrum. The lineup:

MARK STAFFORD adapts ‘The Cruel Ship’s Carpenter’
ORSON COUPLAND adapts ‘King Kong Kitchie Kitchie Kim-E-O’
AIDAN SAUNDERS adapts ‘The Big Rock Candy Mountain’
KIMBERLEY FOUNTAIN adapts ‘Lord Ronald/Lord Randal’
DREW WEBSTER adapts ‘Spanish Ladies’
HANNAH DYSON adapts ‘The False Knight On The Road ‘
PETER LLOYD adapts ‘The Farmer’s Curst Wife’
JONNY HANNAH  adapts ‘St. James Infirmary Blues’
BETTE-BELLE BLANCHARD adapts ‘The Cruel Mother’ 
DARYL RAINBOW adapts ‘Gallows Pole/Hangman’  
ZEEL adapts ‘Fatal Flower Garden/Hugh of Lincoln’  
NICK WHITE  adapts ‘The Carrion Crow’
HUNT EMERSON adapts ‘Froggy Went A’Courtin’ 
SOJU TANAKA adapts ‘Old Roger is Dead’ 
LESLEY BARNES adapts ‘The Trees they Grow so High’ 
MARIE MORELLE  adapts ‘Scarborough Fair’
JIM STOTEN  adapts ‘John of Hazelgreen’
FIONTAN FITZGERALD adapts ‘Nottamun Town’
FRAN COLOMB adapts ‘The Foggy, Foggy Dew’
LORD HURK adapts ‘The Two Brothers’
BEAU BRANNICK adapts ‘Black Is The Colour’
JONATHAN EDWARDS adapts ‘The Cherry Tree Carol’
TOMMY BRENTNALL adapts ‘Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight’ 
STEVEN FOWLER adapts ‘And We Hunted And We Hunted/Three Jolly Welshmen’
GARY NORTHFIELDhe adapts ‘Three Ravens’
ROB NICOL adapts ‘What Are Little Boys Made Of ?’ and  ‘The Tottenham Toad’  
WOODROW PHOENIX adapts ‘Single Girl, Married Girl’  

If we reach our goal of £850 that would award us enough money to publish an E-book and start a website which can run for 2 years,

If we make £1500 we can launch an e-book, a website and a very ltd edition of books,

With £3000 we can publish a run of books, start our website and embark on an exciting future with 'The Golden Thread Project'.

All patrons will be celebrated on our website, if you are unable to donate please could you share this campaign on any social media platforms you may have.

Thank You!